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As they stand today, so-called smart cities are a contradiction – their digital monitoring, automation, and other innovative technologies consume more energy than they save! So far, the predicted usefulness of city-wide intelligence in the form of Big Da... (Read more)

Conduction is one of the most important modes of heat transfer, an importance well-established by its practical significance in many energy engineering problems. Energy Transfers by Conduction examines in detail the conduction of heat; it highlights the... (Read more)

Unlocking the power of artificial intelligence is one of the most compelling research fields of the 21st Century. In this book, Alain Cardon describes an architecture which draws upon the foundations of the human psyche – that which makes us human – to... (Read more)

Following the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.0 has emerged and brought with it a dramatic societal shift. In 1998, Kodak, the world leader in photographic film, had... (Read more)

In today's business world, where companies constantly seek to grow and develop by optimizing their potential for innovation and creativity, it is essential to understand the critical issues and management practices in R&D. This book proposes a critical... (Read more)

The functions of soils are manifold. They act as a basis for plant life, support for constructions and infrastructure, a biodiversity reserve, a carbon store and so much more. As such, their crucial importance for human life is no longer questioned. Yet so... (Read more)

Scientific, socioeconomic, political and media interest in soils has re-emerged in recent years. Soil is now recognized, not only as a substrate for crop production and human activities, but as a regulator of natural environmental balance (for example, sup... (Read more)

This book provides a methodology for analyzing statically determinate structures. It is aimed at students of civil, mechanical, aeronautical and maritime engineering as well as those interested in structural analysis. The book is composed of two parts: ... (Read more)

The topic of NoSQL databases has emerged recently in the face of the challenge regarding Big Data – namely, the ever-increasing volume of data to be handled. It is now recognized that relational databases are not appropriate in this context, and thus new... (Read more)

After an historical description of the most famous deterministic mathematical models of the consumer–resource (also called predator–prey) relationship, such as the Lotka–Volterra, Gause and Rosenzweig–MacArthur models, this book introduces more rec... (Read more)

The end of the post-war economic boom was marked by the recognition of the environmental problem with the oil crises of the 1970s and, in 1972, the first major UN conference devoted to the human environment. Successive international meetings have resulted ... (Read more)

Innovation systems reflect the relationships that interact with production, diffusion and the use of new knowledge. Promoted by enterprises’ strategies and public policies, innovation systems serve as a reference for understanding the phenomena of growth... (Read more)

Piecewise-deterministic Markov processes form a class of stochastic models with a sizeable scope of applications: biology, insurance, neuroscience, networks, finance, etc. Such processes are defined by a deterministic motion punctuated by random jumps at r... (Read more)

This book discusses research that has been conducted on the role of emotions in management, regarding psychological domains, neurology, sociology, management and the economy. The book also presents concrete examples of the intervention of emotions in day-t... (Read more)

This book on financial strategy covers the evolution of mergers and acquisitions by focusing primarily on value creation. Aware that the stages of this phenomenon remain largely misunderstood in finance, the author defines various types of operations, expl... (Read more)

The role of an electronic designer is to quickly realize the theoretical demonstration of subsets such as amplifiers and oscillators in the same concise and reduced space, as well as to create a suitable simulation to validate the theory and make it possib... (Read more)

The projection of physical and chemical properties of basic compounds that are to be tested in drug design is fundamental, even before the launch of the synthesis program that leads to the development of a hit, as well as drugs that treat the pathology in ... (Read more)

Energy and the environment are inextricably linked not only to the economy but also to the future of humanity. Thermodynamics therefore seems to be a favored tool in overcoming the constraints associated with optimization. The first volume of this seri... (Read more)

When human mobility and flood dynamics intersect, too often we witness tragedies that could have been avoided. This collective book is the result of the work of an interdisciplinary team. It aims to explore social and hydrological dynamics in order to u... (Read more)

This book focuses on the modeling of radar electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering in complex maritime environments. The book is intended for graduate students and engineers as well as for researchers who encounter such problems. Together with t... (Read more)

The evolution of health systems requires adapted governance and an investigation of values. This necessitates a better use of digital technologies that are integrated into interoperable, coherent and evolving information systems that allow us to fight agai... (Read more)

This book focuses on both the potential and proven capabilities of the latest metabolomics-based analytical approaches for the early diagnosis of the alteration of ovoproducts during their production and preservation processes. It details the ovoproduct ma... (Read more)

The chipless RFID sector is attracting the interest of academics and, more recently, industries as a potential alternative identification technique to the barcode. It allows for non-line-of-sight reading and lower tag realization costs compared to chipped ... (Read more)

There has been a great deal of literature on logistics. However, until now, these works have generally focused on the development of a specific theme or hypothesis in particular. This book therefore offers, in the form of 42 complementary sheets, a panoram... (Read more)

A browser, an Internet connection, and some time to spend taming the JavaScript language are all that is needed to reach out into the vast reservoir of data on the Web. JavaScript and Open Data invites the reader on a tour of JavaScript with a focus on ... (Read more)

Advances in research and development (R&D) reveal the immense diversity and potential of marine genetic resources. Under international law, no specific regime exists pertaining to these complex objects of use. Upstream of the R&D chain, the Convention ... (Read more)

We understand globalization as the existence of new macroeconomic solidarities; these have been attested since around the mid-1980s, with the observation of Kenichi Ohmae's tripolar world. Creative globalization has several faces: that of strategies of enl... (Read more)

What are the assemblages in which organizational digital policies are produced? Beyond the managerial slogans and watchwords, what is the concrete organization of digital practices and devices (information systems, intranets, corporate social networks, ope... (Read more)

Technological change often produces significant social changes that are reflected spatially. Today, the smart city is one of the essential, if not dominant, concepts in the production of space. This book questions the impact of the digital on the practi... (Read more)

Since the dawn of time, humanity has learned to tame energy to be able to meet primary needs and to make tools. But modern times have imposed new challenges, created new needs and introduced new constraints. More than ever, humans are facing an importan... (Read more)

This book reflects upon the current trends arising in both the theoretical study and the practical modeling of phenomena that exhibit fractionality. There is a tendency to transition from one type of fractionality to several types presented simultaneously;... (Read more)

This is the first of a three-volume series of books describing the new opportunities and challenges of city logistics, based on papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on City Logistics, 14–16 June 2017, Phuket, Thailand. City logistics... (Read more)

This is the second of a three-volume series of books describing the new opportunities and challenges of city logistics, based on papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on City Logistics, 14–16 June 2017, Phuket, Thailand. City logistic... (Read more)

This is the third of a three-volume series of books describing the new opportunities and challenges of city logistics, based on papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on City Logistics, 14–16 June 2017, Phuket, Thailand. City logistics... (Read more)

Where does political ecology lie on the left–right spectrum? What does it mean? Andrew Dobson indicated that the analyses of ecologism assign to it four possible positions: a new global order (symbolized by the Brundtland Report), a centralized authorita... (Read more)

Big data analytics is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s business context. It concerns not only data that is continuously getting “bigger”, but also the ways in which that data is processed and analyzed and how it is turned into knowledge. ... (Read more)

The aim of this work is to introduce and study basic numerical methods and advanced methods in order to be able to perform scientific computing. The latter refers to the implementation of approaches adapted to the treatment of a scientific problem arising ... (Read more)

Unlike structural engineers, geotechnical engineers deal with a natural material. They have no choice over their medium and must instead accommodate themselves to the material. Moreover, while developments in numerical modeling require more and more specif... (Read more)

This book is a didactic guide which offers the reader an in-depth understanding of analog automation, as well as the opportunity to quickly learn about the computer-aided feedback control of dynamic processes. It allows readers to reinforce their skil... (Read more)

This book explores the major impact of mathematical ideas on philosophical thought. It shows that from Antiquity (Plato) to the end of the Middle Ages (Nicholas of Cusa), philosophy and mathematics have been linked. At the time, visions of the world direct... (Read more)

This book proposes a method which uses the analogy of the ecosystem in order to model and analyze information and communication. Although the concept of the ecosystem is increasingly used to describe situations in which multiple actors have dynamic rel... (Read more)

Maritime transportation is the backbone of world trade: responsible for carrying over 80% of world trade, it has been progressively growing over the past 50 years. Although it is the cheapest way of transporting large amounts of goods, it still involves h... (Read more)