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Artificial intelligence, since its birth in the 1950s, has captured the attention of defense agencies around the world; yet it was only after twenty years that it met with real success in the application of expert military systems. Today, artificial intell... (Read more)

I.AM catalyzes the “convergence for good” of the biological, physical and digital worlds, helping us to better tackle the toughest challenges of the 2020s: climate change, resource depletion, an aging population, social inclusion, the empowerment of pe... (Read more)

This book explores, discusses and considers spatial research and its relevant pedagogic perspectives on the crossings, interactions and transformations of contemporary territorialities. The book addresses the issue of conceiving “translocal” spaces of ... (Read more)

As a result of knowledge exchange between the academic and industrial worlds, this book analyzes the process industries impacted by the digital revolution that accompanies the ongoing energy and environmental transitions. Process Industries 2 first disc... (Read more)

Transportation technologies affect the depletion of non-renewable resources and the environment. Beyond organizational and behavioral solutions, improvement of existing technologies or development of new technologies is now a major challenge. After decades... (Read more)

In analyzing the complex link between entrepreneurship, innovation and development in the context of the emerging world, this book offers a holistic reading of this triptych based on a theoretical foundation that is itself subject to controversy: the natio... (Read more)

Triangulations, and more precisely meshes, are at the heart of many problems relating to a wide variety of scientific disciplines, and in particular numerical simulations of all kinds of physical phenomena. In Volume 1, the theoretical foundations relat... (Read more)

This collective work highlights the new challenges facing the French wine industry and the issues that arise from it. Written on the basis of academic work and field studies, conducted by a group of Montpellier academics in Economics and Management Science... (Read more)

Since its commercialization in 1971, the microprocessor, a modern and integrated form of the central processing unit, has continuously broken records in terms of its integrated functions, computing power, low costs and energy saving status. Today, it is pr... (Read more)

Since its commercialization in 1971, the microprocessor, a modern and integrated form of the central processing unit, has continuously broken records in terms of its integrated functions, computing power, low costs and energy saving status. Today, it is pr... (Read more)

This book analyzes stochastic evolutionary models under the impulse of diffusion, as well as Markov and semi-Markov switches. Models are investigated under the conditions of classical and non-classical (Levy and Poisson) approximations in addition to jumpi... (Read more)

Educational Studies in the Light of the Feminine analyzes a professional trajectory in which engagement in research is a driving force for development, psychosocial integration and socio-professional commitment. This book promotes the emergence of an et... (Read more)

Current descriptions of the future of humanity suggest that some problems reside in our relationship with technique – what it gives us and takes away from us, what we are with and possibly without it. This book studies the relationship that we have wi... (Read more)

Dimensional analysis is the basis for the determination of laws that allow the experimental results obtained on a model to be transposed to the fluid system at full scale (a prototype). The similarity in fluid mechanics then allows for better redefinition ... (Read more)

This book presents the different models of terrestrial bipedalism, from the most distant – that of the dinosaurs – to the closest – that of the great apes. Comparative biomechanical analysis allows us to identify the functional characteristics of ... (Read more)

Since its commercialization in 1971, the microprocessor, a modern and integrated form of the central processing unit, has continuously broken records in terms of its integrated functions, computing power, low costs and energy saving status. Today, it is pr... (Read more)

This book, comprising two volumes, has a dual purpose. The first is to introduce a general methodology for solving diffraction problems in geometries constituted of angular regions – The Wiener-Hopf Solution – Theory (Volume 1). The second is to offer ... (Read more)

The current “generalized digitization” of society is influencing the health environment, healthcare organizations as well as actors. In this context, human and social sciences deconstruct, nuance and sometimes even challenge certain preconceived ideas ... (Read more)

Despite a persistent digital divide, the integration and use of information and communication technology (ICT) in African countries is becoming increasingly apparent in various sectors of activity (banking, education, trade, etc.). The increase in ICT rais... (Read more)

The question of using research methods from the humanities and social sciences to investigate cybersecurity currently remains unexplored. For these disciplines, this new, complex and multifaceted phenomenon can be considered from a variety of complementary... (Read more)

Manipulating and processing masses of digital data is never a purely technical activity. It requires an interpretative and exploratory outlook – already well known in the social sciences and the humanities – to convey intelligible results from data ana... (Read more)

By paying attention to entrepreneurs, we can see that the entrepreneurial process is an exciting project that lasts a lifetime. But it won’t always be easy! For entrepreneurs, winning clients can often mean working with or for large groups and organizati... (Read more)

In From Clouds to the Brain, a historical and epistemological journey is retraced. The focus of this book is the history of medical electricity, and it is this journey that is explored, accompanied by a look at electricity’s medical effects on the body, ... (Read more)

This book is a collective volume authored by leading scientists in the field of stochastic modeling for dependent data, associated statistical topics and corresponding applications. These issues are crucial, as we face a growing need for increasingly compl... (Read more)

This book exposes the general concepts and results concerning stability issues, especially for non-conservative systems. It then presents an approach of stability that is different from Lyapunov’s theory and leads to the second-order work criterion (whic... (Read more)

This book, comprising two volumes, has a dual purpose. The first is to introduce a general methodology for solving diffraction problems in geometries constituted of angular regions – The Wiener-Hopf Solution – Theory (Volume 1). The second is to offer ... (Read more)

IT infrastructures are now essential in all areas and sectors of human activity; they are the cornerstone of any information system. Thus, it is clear that the greatest of care must be given to their design, implementation, security and supervision in orde... (Read more)

This book is the second of a set dedicated to the mathematical tools used in partial differential equations derived from physics. It presents the properties of continuous functions, which are useful for solving partial differential equations, and, more ... (Read more)

Of crucial economic and societal importance, process industries transform matter by chemical, physical or biological means. They cover broad fields such as chemistry, oil, pharmacy, metallurgy and agri-food, to name a few. As a result of knowledge excha... (Read more)

Today, the use of corpora is common in all fields of linguistics. Thus, the ability to quantitatively analyze linguistic data from a corpus is becoming an essential part of the linguistic “toolbox”. This book sheds light on the theoretical and methodo... (Read more)

In a context marked by unprecedented challenges (the struggle against inequalities, climate change, etc.), innovation appears to be the ready-made universal scapegoat. Innovation for Society, however, suggests that we look at innovation differently, by... (Read more)

Helping, guiding, accompanying, assisting, and supporting are recurrent actions carried out by the teacher, trainer, or support worker in a professional environment. Support in Education seeks to define these complex actions that intend to improve colle... (Read more)

Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of data and information. As such, they are eager to develop ways to “manage” them, to enrich them and take advantage of them. Indeed, the recent explosion of a phenomenal amount of data, and ... (Read more)

Due to the challenges of climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and an increase in inequality, it has become necessary for us to change our habits and to embrace what some might call a “Copernican revolution”. This book argues that the best facil... (Read more)

Science fiction is often presented as a source of utopia, or even of prophecies, used in capitalism to promote social, political and technoscientific innovations. Science Fiction and Innovation Design assesses the validity of this approach by exploring ... (Read more)

The commoditization of goods, environmental pollution, relocation, the exploitation of cheap labor and encouragement to overconsume – these traits characterize the luxury fashion industry, whose economic growth continues to rise. This book examines th... (Read more)