Engineering: general

The book describes state-of-the-art product service systems, and provides a framework to categorize the knowledge surrounding these systems.

This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries.

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held in Nevsehir, Turkey, on June 21-22, 2018.

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a "e;paradigm shift"e; in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution.

This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership.

The conference proceedings contains contributions to the Logistics Management conference 2019.

This book discusses the rapidly growing interest in economic diversification through partnerships between industry, university and government (IUGP), with a focus on the economic diversification of the state of Qatar.

This book gathers the proceedings of the I-ESA'18 Conference, which was organised by the Fraunhofer IPK, on behalf of the European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) and the DFI, and was held in Berlin, Germany in March 2018.

This book provides support to academics and researchers, as well as those operating in the management and engineering fields that need to deal with policies and strategies that allow to move towards a more sustainable paradigm, a greener economy that guarantees economic development and the improvement of living and working conditions.

This book provides a wide-range exploration on the ongoing research and developmental events in environmental nanotechnology.

Prepare yourselves for the coming Cyber Revolution!

This book provides the fundamental aspects of the diverse ranges of nanostructured materials (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D) for energy and environmental applications in a comprehensive manner written by specialists who are at the forefront of research in the field of energy and environmental science.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.

This book provides a systemic view on the digital future from the perspectives of various socio-humanitarian sciences: economics, social sciences, pedagogics and law.

This book analyzes the process-oriented and organizational changes related to the digital transformation of multidisciplinary design firms.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety.

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, working with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the use of neutrosophic sets in multiple criteria decision making problems.

In this controversial essay, Carlos Elias addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and economic progress of Western countries.

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain.

This volume outlines a progressively staged process focused on fostering a more effective, more efficient, and greener global construction industry.

The work contains selected and thoroughly reviewed research papers of the topics Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Digitalization, Sustainability, Transportation Management, Process Management, Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance.

This book explains the requirements of ISO 9001 for establishing quality management system (QMS) for an organization.

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world's first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint 2018 National Conferences of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) and the Defence Operations Research Symposium (DORS).

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technology aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and to foster the implementation of Industry 4.

This book focuses on strategic and operational human resources, giving the reader the core curriculum of subjects usually presented in an MBA program specialized in organizational behaviour and human resource management.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

This contributed volume brings together research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, held in Bremen, Germany in February 2014.

This book examines inventory and production strategies that can reduce unexpected breakdown costs.

This book discusses digitalization trends and their concrete applications in business and societal contexts.

This book gathers papers from the 11th Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) Postgraduate Research Conference, held on 28-30 July 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Using site-specific optimization approaches in international manufacturing networks is increasingly proving insufficient.

This collection of expert articles explores the development drivers of new technology-based firms and projects.

This book focusses on the challenges and changes organizational management faces in an era when the need to develop environmentally aware processes meets high levels of competition.

This book reports on innovative strategies for quality control, risk assessment and sustainable development in production processes, in the era of industry 4.

The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen.

This book comprises chapters authored by experts who are professors and researchers in internationally recognized universities and research institutions.

Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world's recent past.

This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical cases.

The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space.

This contributed volume presents a state-of-the-art compendium for startups and corporations, focusing on corporate ventures.

This book is an authoritative collection of contributions in the field of soft-computing.

This book offers a timely snapshot of research and developments in the area of air traffic engineering and management.

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to operations research theory and applications in health care systems.

This current book comprises state-of-the-art research results in the field of mechatronics and reliable systems engineering, gathering papers from almost all continents.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information systems and construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Building Life-cycle Management.