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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)

Systemic innovation is based on business networks and new business models in a global economy integrated by flows of knowledge, capital, and goods. The authors of this book consider the theory that innovations act as systems based on multi-actor interactio... (Read more)

Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations... (Read more)

Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations... (Read more)

System requirements engineering is a key feature of complex systems engineering. This book proposes a method inspired by the best practices of system engineering standards: it favors a model-based systems engineering approach using the system modeling lang... (Read more)

This book addresses the difficulty of obtaining a quality solution, that is, pre optimal or even optimal, in a reasonable time from a central processing unit (CPU). As polynomial problems can be treated by exact methods, the problem posed concerns non-poly... (Read more)

Elastoplastic behavior has long been part of the constitutive models incorporated in most computer codes, used in the design of civil and mechanical engineering structures. Elastoplastic Modeling offers a compact presentation of the fundamentals of clas... (Read more)

Cognitive Mechanisms of Learning presents experimental research works on the issue of knowledge acquisition in Cognitive Psychology. These research works – initiated by groups of researchers with academic backgrounds in Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistic... (Read more)

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis of the past and present, ranging from the first human migration to contemporary organizational managem... (Read more)

This book establishes a fundamental working knowledge of the theories and applications behind data assimilation and numerical weather prediction. It has been written to support under- and postgraduates in atmospheric or Earth sciences and introduces studen... (Read more)

The 1990s, from an IT perspective, brought major changes with regards to independent operating systems. Small, powerful machines that consumed little energy replaced the mainframes, the symbols of centralized systems of the 1970–80s. Historically, the or... (Read more)

Thresholds in Architectural Education provides a comprehensive presentation of the various forms of interaction that exist within the non-formal, informal and formal learning experiences of architectural students, studying the discipline at higher educatio... (Read more)

Are innovators conscious of their role, or do they only consider innovation in a way that is over-capitalist and ultra-liberal? Starting with philosophy, it is possible to examine innovation from a different perspective, outside of the usual categories ... (Read more)

Shapes of Tourism Employment presents the circumstances of being an employee in large-scale tourist organizations within two key sectors – hotels and passenger air transport – according to their evolution in response to the advent of the leisure societ... (Read more)

This new edited volume consists of a collection of original articles written by leading financial economists and industry experts in the area of machine learning for asset management. The chapters introduce the reader to some of the latest research deve... (Read more)

Territorialization of Education revisits, in a new and innovative way, the many interactions that have gradually developed between both territories-territorialities and schools-education. Predominantly based on original empirical research, this book, by... (Read more)