Maths for engineers

These proceedings present the results of the Eleventh International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX which took place in a picturesque Brunow Palace in Poland from 27th June to 1st July, 2016.

This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world.

This book presents a broad range of innovative applications and case studies in all areas of management and engineering, including public administration, finance, marketing, engineering, transportation, and energy systems.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching engineering statistics effectively.

New finite elements are needed as well in research as in industry environments for thedevelopment of virtual prediction techniques.

This book brings together a rich selection of studies in mathematical modeling and computational intelligence, with application in several fields of engineering, like automation, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, electronic, geophysical and mechanical engineering, on a multidisciplinary approach.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems.

The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology.

The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology.

This textbook aims to briefly outline the main directions in which thegeometrization of thermodynamics has been developed in the last decades.

This book presents a new, multidisciplinary perspective on and paradigm for integrative experimental design research.

This book presents a unified approach to studying the stability of both elliptic Cauchy problems and selected inverse problems.

This contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2015, Berlin.

In this short monograph Newton-likeand other similar numerical methods with applications to solving multivariateequations are developed, which involve Caputotype fractional mixed partial derivatives and multivariate fractional Riemann-Liouvilleintegral operators.

This volumeis a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the fourthinternational symposium on Modeling and Implementing Complex Systems(MICS 2106) organized into four main topics: Networking and Cloud Computing,Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Intelligent and Information Systems,and Algorithms and Complexity.

This book is a source of valuable and useful information on the topics of dynamics of number systems and scientific computation with arbitrary precision.

Presenting an analysis of different approaches for predicting the service life of buildings, this monograph discusses various statistical tools and mathematical models, some of which have rarely been applied to the field.

This book presents the singular configurations associated with a robot mechanism, together with robust methods for their computation, interpretation, and avoidance path planning.

This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines - complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist - addresses various issues regarding cities.

This successful book provides in its second edition an interactive and illustrative guide from two-dimensional curve fitting to multidimensional clustering and machine learning with neural networks or support vector machines.

This book provides a synthesis of recent developments in Axiomatic Design theory and its application in large complex systems.

This edited monograph includes state-of-the-art contributions on continuous time dynamical networks with delays.

This book reports on advancedtheories and cutting-edge applications in the field of soft computing.

This book presents lecture notes from the XVI 'Jacques-Louis Lions' Spanish-French School on Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering, held in Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) in September 2014.

The book presents an overview of the state of research of advanced finite element technologies.

This book analyses quantitative open source software (OSS)reliability assessment and its applications, focusing on three major topicareas: the Fundamentals of OSS Quality/Reliability Measurement and Assessment;the Practical Applications of OSS Reliability Modelling; and RecentDevelopments in OSS Reliability Modelling.

This book presents state-of-the-art results and methodologies in modern global optimization, and has been a staple reference for researchers, engineers, advanced students (also in applied mathematics), and practitioners in various fields of engineering.

This book is the fourth in a multidisciplinary series which brings together leading researchers in the STEAM-H disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics and Health) to present their perspective on advances in their own specific fields, and to generate a genuinely interdisciplinary collaboration that transcends parochial subject-matter boundaries.

The book is intended as an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course for students from various disciplines, including applied mathematics, physics and engineering.

This proceedings book presents edited results of the eighth International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE'2015) and on Oriental Thinking and Fuzzy Logic, in August 17-20, 2015, in Dalian, China.

This book introduces methods of robust optimization in multivariateadaptive regression splines (MARS) and Conic MARS in order to handleuncertainty and non-linearity.

This book, fully updated for Python version 3.

This volumecollects various contributions from the 5th International Conferenceon Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows (ICJWSF2015) that took place in Stockholmduring June 2015.

The lastdecades have seen the emergence of Complex Networks as the language with whicha wide range of complex phenomena in fields as diverse as Physics, ComputerScience, and Medicine (to name just a few) can be properly described andunderstood.

This book offers a rigorous and self-contained presentation of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus within the general framework of continuous semimartingales.

The book reports on the latest advances and applications of nonlinearcontrol systems.

This book is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

Focused on efficient simulation-driven multi-fidelity optimization techniques, this monograph on simulation-driven optimization covers simulations utilizing physics-based low-fidelity models, often based on coarse-discretization simulations or other types of simplified physics representations, such as analytical models.

The chapters in this book originate from the research work and contributions presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots held in Grenoble, France in June 2015.

This book reports on the latest advances andapplications of chaotic systems.

This book presents a panorama about the recent progress of industrial mathematics from the point of view of both industrials and researchers.

This monograph investigates violations of statistical stability of physical events, variables, and processes and develops a new physical-mathematical theory taking into consideration such violations - the theory of hyper-random phenomena.

The expanded 3rd edition of this established textbook offers an updated overview and review of the computational physics techniques used in materials modelling over different length and time scales.

Focusingon five main groups of interdisciplinary problems, this book covers a widerange of topics in mathematical modeling, computational science and appliedmathematics.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the 10thInternational Conference on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering(SCEE), held in Wuppertal, Germany in 2014.

This extensively revised and updated second edition of a widely read classic presents the use of ultrasound in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) inspections.

Thebook presents the challenges inherent in the paradigm shift of network systemsfrom static to highly dynamic distributed systems it proposes solutions thatthe symbiotic nature of biological systems can provide into altering networkingsystems to adapt to these changes.

This book, intended for researchers andgraduate students in physics, applied mathematics and engineering, presents adetailed comparison of the important methods of solution for lineardifferential and difference equations - variation of constants, reduction oforder, Laplace transforms and generating functions - bringing out thesimilarities as well as the significant differences in the respective analyses.

This professionaltreatise on engineering graphics emphasizes engineering geometry as thetheoretical foundation for communication of design ideas with real worldstructures and products.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of investment problems pertaining to electric energy infrastructure, including both generation and transmission facilities.