Pierre Pelcé, CNRS, France
November 2019
Based on the growth of living organisms such as unicellular algae, filamentous fungi and neurons, the author’s collaboration with physicists, numerical analysts and biologists has made it possible, after 30 years, to establish the physicochemical theory ... (Read more)
Analysis of Failures, Predictive Reliability
Edited by
Abdelkhalak El Hami, INSA-Rouen Normandy, France
Philippe Pougnet, Valeo, France
November 2019
Combining computer science, mechanics and electronics improves the performance of embedded electronic systems by reducing their weight, volume, energy consumption and manufacturing cost. Mechatronic equipment is constantly required to extend zero-fault lif... (Read more)
From Louis Pasteur to Jules Hoffmann
Yves Carton, EGCE-CNRS laboratory, France
November 2019
Innate immunity is a new branch of immunology, confirmed by three Nobel Prize winners in 2011. It is the first line of defense against pathogens and is in a way the preliminary step of adaptive immunity which occurs later, and only present in vertebrates. ... (Read more)
A Constraint-Programming Approach Over Dynamical Systems
Simon Rohou, ENSTA Bretagne-Lab-STICC, France
Luc Jaulin, ENSTA Bretagne-Lab-STICC, France
Lyudmila Mihaylova, University of Sheffield, UK
Fabrice Le Bars, ENSTA Bretagne-Lab-STICC, France
Sandor M. Veres, University of Sheffield, UK
November 2019
Localization for underwater robots remains a challenging issue. Typical sensors, such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers, cannot be used under the surface and other inertial systems suffer from a strong integration drift. On top of that... (Read more)
Tension Between Territorial Development and Heritage Enhancement
Edited by
Yves Girault, French National Museum of Natural History, France
November 2019
Recently, UNESCO has gradually started to recognize world geoparks ? territorial spaces with a geological heritage of international importance. This classification presents real challenges. Development strategies must align with the recommendations advo... (Read more)
Dynamics of a Set of Solids
Georges Vénizélos, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), France
Abdelkhalak El Hami, INSA Rouen Normandy, France
November 2019
The final volume in the Non-deformable Solid Mechanics set, Movement Equations 5 deals with the dynamics of sets of solids. This volume provides the appropriate mathematical tools (torsor calculus and matrix calculus) to obtain and solve the equations of m... (Read more)
Gérard Favier, CNRS, France
November 2019
Nowadays, tensors play a central role for the representation, mining, analysis, and fusion of multidimensional, multimodal, and heterogeneous big data in numerous fields. This set on Matrices and Tensors in Signal Processing aims at giving a self-contai... (Read more)
Understanding and Deploying a KM Plan within a Learning Organization
Pierre Saulais, IKI SEA, Bangkok University, Thailand
Jean-Louis Ermine, Mines Telecom Institute, France
November 2019
The status of knowledge management (KM) as a mature science has long been recognized in the academic world. However, in the economic arena, its connection with companies and organizations has been more gradual. Jean-Louis Ermine established a theoretical a... (Read more)
Shared Inventions, Competitive Innovations and Social Dynamics
Michel Vigezzi, University of Grenoble-Alpes, France
November 2019
Based on the paradigms of economics and management, inspired by the history of technology and the sociology of technological change, the concepts of shared inventions and competitive innovations make it possible to analyze the industrialization of the worl... (Read more)
Methods and Techniques to Achieve Success
Véronique Duong, Consultant
November 2019
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is arguably the most significant tool that marketeers have to push online content. As the hub of the computational engineering fields, SEO encompasses technical, editorial and link-building strategies, and is an integral pa... (Read more)
Theory of Knowledge and Acceleration of Time
Bernard Ancori, University of Strasbourg, France
November 2019
Based around the image of a carousel, this book uses epistemological theory to tackle the paradoxical acceleration and deceleration of time that is experienced by many. The consequence of this paradox is the observance of the past, present and future coinc... (Read more)
Jean-Luc Mari, Aix-Marseille University, France
Franck Hétroy-Wheeler, University of Strasbourg, France
Gérard Subsol, Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM), France
November 2019
Three-dimensional surface meshes are the most common discrete representation of the exterior of a virtual shape. Extracting relevant geometric or topological features from them can simplify the way objects are looked at, help with their recognition, and fa... (Read more)
Rabeb Ben Kahla, the National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia
Abdelwahed Barkaoui, the International University of Rabat, Morocco
Tarek Merzouki, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France
November 2019
Digital models based on data from medical images have recently become widespread in the field of biomechanics. This book summarizes medical imaging techniques and processing procedures, both of which are necessary for creating bone models with finite eleme... (Read more)
Edited by
Estelle Pellegrin-Boucher, University of Montpellier, France
Pierre Roy, University of Montpellier, France
November 2019
Technological innovations, sociological and consumer trends, and growing internationalization are transforming the cultural and creative industries (CCIs). These changes present new challenges for CCIs that require original and inventive answers. Innova... (Read more)
Joël-Thomas Ravix, University of Côte d’Azur, France
Marc Deschamps, University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
November 2019
Microeconomic policies – in particular, industrial and innovation policies – are appraised and enforced within the framework of the rules relative to free movement and competition. This book introduces the current wave of innovative industrial polic... (Read more)
Edited by
Roger Waldeck, Laboratoire d’Économie et de Gestion de l’Ouest (LEGO), France
November 2019
Interdisciplinarity research results from a growing need for multi-perspective methods, and knowledge on complex and multifaceted objects of study. It is not simply scientific research that involves several disciplines, but ultimately, the aim is confronti... (Read more)
Project RI-ADAPTCLIM
Edited by
Panagiotis Kotronis, Centrale Nantes, France
November 2019
This book brings together a selection of the scientific results of the RI ADAPTCLIM project (International Network on Risk Assessment and Climatic Adaptation of Civil Engineering and Buildings Works). Funded by the Pays de la Loire region in France as part... (Read more)
Digital Transition and Revolution
Edited by
Philippe Blua, Champagne Sud hospitals, France
Farouk Yalaou and Lionel Amodeo, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Michaël De Block, Metz-Thionville CHR and GHT Lorraine Nord, France
David Laplanche, Champagne Sud hospitals, France
November 2019
As new information and communication technologies (NICTs) increasingly reorganize our practices and influence our daily lives, there is a pressing need to study their impact in the field of hospital logistics and to question their future use. Hospital L... (Read more)
Edited by
Irini Micha and Dina Vaiou, National Technical of Athens, Greece
November 2019
Alternative Takes to the City presents the mosaic of relations and socio-spatial conditions which compose the plurality of contemporary everyday space(s) in cities, offering "a view from below". It proposes a multidisciplinary and gendered approach to the ... (Read more)
Gérard-Michel Cochard, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
November 2019
Mastering chance has, for a long time, been a preoccupation of mathematical research. Today, we possess a predictive approach to the evolution of systems based on the theory of probabilities. Even so, uncovering this subject is sometimes complex, because i... (Read more)
Thermal Radiation and Experimental Facts Regarding the Quantization of Matter
Ibrahima Sakho, University of Thiès, Senegal
November 2019
The conception of lasers and optoelectronic devices such as solar cells have been made possible, thanks to the modern day mastery of processes that harness the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. This first volume is dedicated to therm... (Read more)
Linguistic Foundations
Mathilde Janier, Consultant
Patrick Saint-Dizier, CNRS – IRIT Toulouse, France
November 2019
This book is an introduction to the linguistic concepts of argumentation relevant for argument mining, an important research and development activity which can be viewed as a highly complex form of information retrieval, requiring high-level natural langua... (Read more)
Operationalization of Latent Constructs
Azza Frikha, Tunis Business School (ESCT), Tunisia
November 2019
Scientific research uses concepts (or constructs) and requires means to measure them. Often latent, abstract and not directly observable, these concepts demand special attention. When facing problems related to their operationalization, considerable effort... (Read more)
Actions Around Uncertainty in Urban Planning and Infrastructure Development
Geneviève Zembri-Mary, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
November 2019
Those tasked with the planning and construction of infrastructure and development operations face an increasingly uncertain context in which they must address risks across a number of different fields. These range from the environmental and archaeological ... (Read more)
Renewal of Conjectures
Laurent Dousset EHESS, France
Sejin Park, Institute of Cross-Cultural, South Korea
Georges Guille-Escuret, CNRS, France
November 2019
The analysis of kinship plays a major role in social anthropology. However, the intellectual triumph of structuralism has transformed this analysis into an ivory tower and the methodological hegemony of functionalism inhibits any historical authority. K... (Read more)
Opinion Mining in Microblogs and Social Media
Jihen Karoui, AUSY, France
Farah Benamara, University in Toulouse, France
Véronique Moriceau, Paul Sabatier University, France
November 2019
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of opinion-heavy texts on the Web: opinions of Internet users, comments on social networks, etc. Automating the synthesis of opinions has become crucial to gaining an overview on a given topic. Current automa... (Read more)
Luc Jaulin, ENSTA-Bretagne, France
October 2019
Mobile Robotics presents the different tools and methods that enable the design of mobile robots; a discipline booming with the emergence of flying drones, underwater mine-detector robots, robot sailboats and vacuum cleaners. Illustrated with simulation... (Read more)
History and Challenges
Roger Buis, University of Toulouse, France
October 2019
To formalize the dynamics of living things is to search for invariants in a system that contains an irreducible aspect of “fuzziness”, because biological processes are characterized by their large statistical variability, and strong dependence on tempo... (Read more)
Synthetic Methods and Applications
Olivier Piva, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
October 2019
For chemists, attempting to mimic nature by synthesizing complex natural products from raw material is a challenge that is fraught with pitfalls. To tackle this unique but potentially rewarding task, researchers can rely on well-established reactions and m... (Read more)
Abdelhanine Benallou, Moroccan Association Solar Industry, Marocco
October 2019
Many practical operations, such as environment depollution, blood dialysis or product purification, require matter transfer. With an emphasis on the aforementioned subjects, this book revisits the founding principles of materials transfer on the basis o... (Read more)
Maksym Luz, BNP Paribas Cardif, Ukraine
Mikhail Moklyachuk, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
October 2019
Estimation of Stochastic Processes is intended for researchers in the field of econometrics, financial mathematics, statistics or signal processing. This book gives a deep understanding of spectral theory and estimation techniques for stochastic processes ... (Read more)
History and General Properties
Pierre Bertrand, University of Lorraine, France
Daniele Del Sarto, University of Lorraine, France
Alain Ghizzo, University of Lorraine, France
October 2019
The Vlasov equation is the master equation which provides a statistical description for the collective behavior of large numbers of charged particles in mutual, long-range interaction. In other words, a low collision (or “Vlasov”) plasma. Plasma physic... (Read more)
From Polar Expeditions to Exploration-Oriented Organizations
Edited by
Pascal Lièvre, Clermont Auvergne University, France
Monique Aubry, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Gilles Garel, the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, France
October 2019
In response to the rise of various forms of the extreme in economies, organizations and societies (such as disruptive innovation, climate emergency, financial crisis, high-risk sport, etc.), an ambitious 21st century program sets the agenda of management s... (Read more)
Stéphane Goria, University of Lorraine, France
Pierre Humbert, University of Lorraine, France
Benoît Roussel, University of Lorraine, France
October 2019
Information, Knowledge and Agile Creativity will enlighten entrepreneurs, and is ideal for facilitating an organization’s ability to react and adapt to its environment. Creativity is a system that engenders innovation. While integral at the conception... (Read more)
From Tait's Work on the Compressibility of Seawater to Equations-of-State for Liquids
Frédéric Aitken, CNRS – Grenoble Electrical Engineering Laboratory, France
Jean-Numa Foulc, Grenoble Alpes University, France
October 2019
The scientific expedition of H.M.S. Challenger in the 1870s marks the starting point of physical oceanography. This ship traveled the seas of the globe pursuing a dual objective: to conduct an in-depth study of animal life and to observe the physical prope... (Read more)
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