Technology: general issues

With the overwhelming use of computers in engineering, science and physics, the approximate solution of complex mathematical systems of equations is almost commonplace.

Human Intelligence-Based Manufacturing is part of the Advanced Manufacturing Series edited by Professor D.

Neural Network Applications contains the 12 papers presented at the second British Neural Network Society Meeting (NCM '91) held at King's College London on 1st October 1991.

Designers and operators of rotating machinery have to deal with the effects of machine vibration and wear.

Parallel Processing Applications for Jet Engine Control is a volume in the new Advances in Industrial Control series, edited by Professor M.

Parallel Processing in Digital Control is a volume to be published in the new Advances in Industrial Control series, edited by Professor M.

The material presented in this book addresses the analysis and design of learning control systems.

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There is now a serious discussion taking place about the moment at which human beings will be surpassed and replaced by the machine.

Effective decision making requires a clear methodology, particularly in complex, globally relevant situations.

In order to satisfy the needs of their customers, network utilities require specially developed maintenance management capabilities.

Environmental Design is becoming an increasingly significant agenda for many manufacturing companies and yet there is no standard to their approaches, strategies or their levels of execution.

Real-time model predictive controller (MPC) implementation in active vibration control (AVC) is often rendered difficult by fast sampling speeds and extensive actuator-deformation asymmetry.

The Spanish Conference of Industrial Engineering /Ingenieria de Organizacion Industrial (CIO) is an annual meeting promoted by Asociacion para el Desarrollo de la Ingenieria de Organizacion/ Industrial Engineers Association (ADINGOR).

This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation - from 3000 B.

Uncertainty is an inherent feature of both properties of physical systems and the inputs to these systems that needs to be quantified for cost effective and reliable designs.

Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) is becoming increasing popular; practitioners use it in the railway, air traffic management and nuclear industries, amongst others.

Innovation Design presents an approach to designing shared value for businesses, non-profit organizations, end-users and society.

With increased globalization and offshore sourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses as it involves a company's worldwide interests and suppliers rather than simply a local or national orientation.

Data Approximation by Low-complexity Models details the theory, algorithms, and applications of structured low-rank approximation.

Classes of socio-technical hazards allow a characterization of the risk in technology innovation and clarify the mechanisms underpinning emergent technological risk.

Limited availability of grid-based electricity is a major challenge faced by many developing countries, particularly the rural population.

Loss networks ensure that sufficient resources are available when a call arrives.

Fixtures are crucial to new manufacturing techniques and largely dictate the level of flexibility a manufacturing system can achieve.

Manufacturers worldwide are faced with unprecedented challenges from international competition, changing production processes and technologies, shorter production life-cycles, market globalization and environmental requirements.

This text presents an introduction to the application of the finite ele- ment method to the analysis of heat transfer problems.

What is AutoCAD?

Differential games theory is the most appropriate discipline for the modelling and analysis of real life conflict problems.

The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's.

Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series.

This book contains the text of the plenary lectures and the mini-courses of the European Control Conference (ECC 95) held in Rome, Italy, September 5-September 8, 1995.

It is the aim of this study to present a framework for the design of technical systems.

Safety-related computer systems are those which may lead to loss of life, injury or plant and environmental damage.

Model Order Reduction Techniqes focuses on model reduction problems with particular applications in electrical engineering.

As software is very complex, we can only test a limited range of the possible states of the software in a reasonable time frame.

Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability is part of the Communications and Control Engineering Series (CCES) edited by Professors B.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying neural networks to dynamic systems identification (modelling), prediction and control.

Dimensional metrology is an essential part of modern manufacturing technologies, but the basic theories and measurement methods are no longer sufficient for today's digitized systems.

This second book in our series Artificial Intelligence and Society explores the issues involved in the design and application of human-centred systems in the manufacturing area.

Safety-critical systems, in the sense of software-based systems used in safety- critical applications, are 'high-tech'.

It is well-known that some 85% of the resources necessary to design and bring to market a product are committed by decisions taken in the first 10% of the design activity.

Joe Engelberger, the pioneer of the robotics industry, wrote in his 1989 book Robotics in Service that the inspiration to write his book came as a reaction to an industry-sponsored forecast study of robot applications, which predicted that in 1995 applications of robotics outside factories - the traditional domain of industrial robots - would amount to less than 1% of total sales.

Evolutionary Structural Optimization (ESO) is a design method based on the simple concept of gradually removing inefficient material from a structure as it is being designed.

Base isolation technology offers a cost-effective and reliable strategy for mitigating seismic damage to structures.

Semantics of Parallelism is the only book which provides a unified treatment of the non-interleaving approach to process semantics (as opposed to the interleaving approach of the process algebraists).

Evolutionary Learning Algorithms for Neural Adaptive Control is an advanced textbook, which investigates how neural networks and genetic algorithms can be applied to difficult adaptive control problems which conventional results are either unable to solve , or for which they can not provide satisfactory results.

Structural topology optimization is a fast growing field that is finding numerous applications in automotive, aerospace and mechanical design processes.

Parallel Kinematic Machines (PKMs) are one of the most radical innovations in production equipment.