Maths for engineers

This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process.

This book deals with two fundamental issues in the semiotics of the image.

This book presents the outcomes of the annual "e;Engineering Economics Week - 2020,"e; organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Institute of Management and the Institute of Market Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the South-Russian State Polytechnic University and Samara State University of Economics, and held in online format in May 2020.

This book explores the fundamentals of smart cities along with issues, controversies, problems and applications concerning security and privacy in smart city development.

This book provides concise yet thorough coverage of the fundamentals and technology of fuzzy sets.

This book, now in its second edition, introduces the singularity analysis of differential and difference equations via the Painleve test and shows how Painleve analysis provides a powerful algorithmic approach to building explicit solutions to nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations.

This book discusses recent developments in dynamic reliability in multi-state systems (MSS), addressing such important issues as reliability and availability analysis of aging MSS, the impact of initial conditions on MSS reliability and availability, changing importance of components over time in MSS with aging components, and the determination of age-replacement policies.

This book presents theoretical and practical findings on the state estimation, diagnosis and control of complex systems, especially in the mathematical form of descriptor systems.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of statistical descriptions of turbulent flows.

This comprehensive book examines a range of examples, prepared by a diverse group of academic and industry practitioners, which demonstrate how cloud-based simulation is being extensively used across many disciplines, including cyber-physical systems engineering.

This book presents the latest advances in photometric 3D reconstruction.

This book features recent research in mathematical modeling of indirectly and directly transmitted infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants.

This book presents a collection of papers on recent advances in problems concerning dynamics, optimal control and optimization.

This book presents a selection of cutting-edge methods that allow readers to obtain novel models for nonlinear solid mechanics.

This book features selected manuscripts presented at ICoNSoM 2019, exploring cutting-edge methods for developing novel models in nonlinear solid mechanics.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

This book focuses on the latest approaches and methods in fundamental mathematics and mechanics, and discusses the practical application of abstract mathematical approaches, such as differential geometry, and differential and difference equations in solid mechanics, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, optimization, decision-making theory and control theory.

This is the first single volume monograph that systematically summarizes the recent progress in using non-Fourier heat conduction theories to deal with the multiphysical behaviour of smart materials and structures.

This book presents selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), which illustrate the diversity of theoretical problems in analysis of performability, reliability and security of contemporary computer systems.

This book discusses recent research and applications in intelligent service computing in mobile environments.

This volume examines problem solving and applied systems aimed at improving performance and management of organizations.

This book reports on the development and assessment of a novel framework for studying neural interactions (the connectome) and their dynamics (the chronnectome).

This book discusses significant research and study topics related to mathematical modelling and analysis of infectious diseases.

This proceedings volume gathers a selection of outstanding research papers presented at the third Conference on Isogeometric Analysis and Applications, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in April 2018.

This book presents innovative intelligent techniques, with an emphasis on their biomedical applications.

This book describes analytical methods for modelling drop evaporation, providing the mathematical tools needed in order to generalise transport and constitutive equations and to find analytical solutions in curvilinear coordinate systems.

This contributed volume provides an up-to-date overview of the mechanics of granular materials, ranging from sparse media to soils.

This textbook explains the physics of phase transformation and associated constraints from a metallurgical or materials science point of view, based on many topics including crystallography, mass transport by diffusion, thermodynamics, heat transfer and related temperature gradients, thermal deformation, and even fracture mechanics.

This book explores four guiding themes - reduced order modelling, high dimensional problems, efficient algorithms, and applications - by reviewing recent algorithmic and mathematical advances and the development of new research directions for uncertainty quantification in the context of partial differential equations with random inputs.

This proceedings volume gathers peer-reviewed, selected papers presented at the "e;Mathematical and Numerical Approaches for Multi-Wave Inverse Problems"e; conference at the Centre Internacional de Rencontres Mathematiques (CIRM) in Marseille, France, in April 2019.

This book examines the problems in the field of energy and related areas (including chemistry, transport, aerospace, construction, metallurgy and engineering) that Ukrainian scientists are currently investigating.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the third volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the first volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book commemorates the 75th birthday of Prof.

This book provides engineers and scientists in academia and industry with a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of nonlinear system identification.

This contributed volume collects papers presented at a special session of the conference Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE) held in Cadiz, Spain from June 30 - July 6, 2019.

This book presents selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), which illustrate the diversity of theoretical problems in analysis of performability, reliability and security of contemporary computer systems.

This book gathers state-of-the-art research in computational engineering and bioengineering to facilitate knowledge exchange between various scientific communities.

This book gathers state-of-the-art research in computational engineering and bioengineering to facilitate knowledge exchange between various scientific communities.

This book strikes a healthy balance between theory and applications, ensuring that it doesn't offer a set of tools with no mathematical roots.

Mainly focusing on processing uncertainty, this book presents state-of-the-art techniques and demonstrates their use in applications to econometrics and other areas.

This book proposes and validates a number of methods and shortcuts for frugal engineers, which will allow them to significantly reduce the computational costs for analysis and reanalysis and, as a result, for structural design processes.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of robotics engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the Latin American Symposium on Industrial and Robotic Systems (LASIRS), held in Tampico, Mexico on October-November 30-01 2019.

This book introduces readers to numerous multiplicative inverse functional equations and their stability results in various spaces.

This book is intended for specialists in systems engineering interested in new, general techniques and for students and practitioners interested in using these techniques for solving specific practical problems.

This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia.

In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it.

This proceedings book presents papers from the 18th International Scientific Conference, held in September 2019 at Volgograd State University (Russia).

This book is one of the first to include an extensive discussion of integrated public transport planning.

This monograph presents cutting-edge research on dispersive wave modelling, and the numerical methods used to simulate the propagation and generation of long surface water waves.