S. Mahdi Homayouni and Dalila B.M.M. Fontes, LIAAD, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
April 2018
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)
Use in the Oil and Gas Industry
Alain Leroy, Consultant
April 2018
The oil and gas industry developed and implemented the concept of system production availability. This book provides all the information needed to properly assess this parameter and develops an approach for fully integrating this assessment within the life... (Read more)
Geoscience Issues and Potential Industrial Applications
Edited by
Livio Ruffine, French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea, Brest, France
Daniel Broseta, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, France
Arnaud Desmedt, University of Bordeaux, France
April 2018
In recent years, interest for clathrate hydrates has increased, motivated both by their fascinating physiochemical and thermophysical properties and their industrial and practical promises in various areas of application. Following the 2017 publication ... (Read more)
Sylvie Leleu-Merviel, University of Valenciennes, France
April 2018
What is color? What is the precise meaning of the statement “the stock market is down by 5% this evening”? How can images produce meaning? How are TV viewers defined? Informationally speaking, such well-known, common questions are examined in this b... (Read more)
Christina G. Georgantopoulou, Bahrain Polytechnic, Kingdom of Bahrain
George A. Georgantopoulos, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
April 2018
This book, comprised of two volumes, is an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. Although emphasis is given to the real-life applications of flows, the theoretical backgroun... (Read more)
Christina G. Georgantopoulou, Bahrain Polytechnic, Kingdom of Bahrain
George A. Georgantopoulos, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
April 2018
This book, comprised of two volumes, is an extended and detailed analysis of both the flow phenomena in closed and open channels and the flows around solid bodies. Although emphasis is given to the real-life applications of flows, the theoretical backgroun... (Read more)
Bernard Dugué, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
April 2018
Time, Emergences and Communications pursues scientific and philosophical research on the place and role of information in natural systems. The first part proposes an unprecedented interpretation of quantum physics by focusing on the idea of matter that com... (Read more)
Guillaume Bonfante, University of Lorraine, France
Bruno Guillaume, Inria Nancy Grand-Est, France
Guy Perrier, University of Lorraine, France
April 2018
This book shows how graph rewriting can be used as a computational model adapted to natural language processing. Focus is placed on annotated corpora that play an increasingly important role within natural language processing and it is therefore interestin... (Read more)
Discrete-time Signals and Systems, and Quantized Level Systems
Pierre Muret, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
April 2018
Over the last 60 years, electronics has undergone important and rapid developments. This has generated a large range of theoretical and practical notions. This book presents a comprehensive treatise on the evolution of electronics and allows the reader ... (Read more)
Geopolitics and Uses
Laurent Gayard, Institut Catholique de Paris, France
April 2018
The phenomenon of the darknet has aroused fascination and concern and is still badly misunderstood. “Hidden Internet”, “deep web”, “darknets”… these terms actually indicate very different realities to those they are often confused with. Fr... (Read more)
Big Data Stakes
Edited by
Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Paris Descartes University, France
April 2018
Over 200 years, industry has mastered iron, fire, power and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects with the widespread integration of chips; from computers and telephones to keys, games and white goods. Data, software and computation structu... (Read more)
Edited by
Ludovic Temple, CIRAD, France
Eveline M.F.W. Compaoré Sawadogo, CNRST, Burkina Faso
April 2018
Agriculture in developing countries must be innovated in order to respond to the triple threat of food and nutritional security, environmental issues and employment needs in rural areas. Yet, existing diffusionist innovation models based on the technologic... (Read more)
History and Development
Olivier Le Deuff, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France
April 2018
Digital humanities has become an increasingly popular field of study, symbolizing the will of human and social sciences to change and modernize. However, its history has often been presented in a restrained and reduced manner. This book presents new ep... (Read more)
Blandine Pennec, University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France
April 2018
Inadequacies, approximations and ambiguities: this is the common batch of phenomena likely to hinder comprehension. Communication, and in particular oral communication, would in theory require many repetitions and preliminary tests in order to reach true a... (Read more)
USGAAP and IFRS Standards
Aldo Lévy, Lirsa Cnam, France
Faten Ben Bouheni, ISC Paris Business School, France
Chantal Ammi, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
April 2018
Financial analyses are most often based on data from accounting documents published by businesses at the end of each year. Diagnostics, prognostics and recommendations are therefore usually made according to the information extracted from these documents, ... (Read more)
Edited by
Philippe Grandcolas, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Marie-Christine Maurel, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
March 2018
Evolution continually shapes the world around us. The living world is reproducing and transmitting traits from ancestors to descendants, yet at the same time it is always changing. This book examines this duality of biodiversity, its past and its future wi... (Read more)
Therapeutic Innovations Under Control
Nicole Arrighi, University of Côte d’Azur, France
March 2018
This book traces the discovery of stem cells and examines how they represent hope in the field of health by leading scientific advances in regenerative medicine. Capable of infinitely multiplying and producing all the cells of the human body, stem cells... (Read more)
Application to Communications for Drone Swarm
Jean-Aimé Maxa, Consultant
Mohamed Slim Ben Mahmoud, ALTRAN Technologies
Nicolas Larrieu, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, France
March 2018
This book describes the use of a model-driven development approach in the aeronautical field and, more specifically, for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) software design. It concerns the design of embedded software for UAVs that allows for wireless ad hoc com... (Read more)
Modeling of Diffusion and Operation Processes
Christian Gontrand, INL/INSA Lyon, France
March 2018
Microelectronics extends from materials to systems architecture, encompassing the “process”, the “device” and the circuit. For years, nano-electronics have been the subject of discussion in industries as well as concerned public entities. In microe... (Read more)
Edited by
Thierry Gaudin, MINES ParisTech, France
Dominique Lacroix, 2100 Foundation
Marie-Christine Maurel, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
Jean-Charles Pomerol, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
March 2018
Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l’information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences. ... (Read more)
Virginie Viallet and Benoit Fleutot, Jules Verne University, France
March 2018
Since the 1990s, Li-ion batteries have been the most commonly-used energy storage systems. As the demand for performance and safety continues to grow, commercial batteries with liquid electrolytes or gels may not be able to meet the needs of emerging appli... (Read more)
Myths and Realities
Edited by
Bruno Arnaldi, INSA Rennes, France
Pascal Guitton, University of Bordeaux, France
Guillaume Moreau, Centrale Nantes Engineering School, France
March 2018
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are two expressions that have recently appeared in the media but which remain largely unknown to the general public and professional world. This book aims to improve our understanding of these technologies by... (Read more)
André Perez, Consultant
March 2018
The proliferation of mobile applications has increased the amount of data in the 4G mobile network. With the adoption of smartphones and broadband services such as video streaming, cellular network resources are becoming increasingly constrained. Wi-Fi ... (Read more)
Function Approximation and System Resolution
Bouchaib Radi, Hassan First University, Morocco
Abdelkhalak El Hami, INSA-Rouen, France
March 2018
Most physical problems can be written and approximated in the form of mathematical equations (differential, integral, etc.). Mathematicians have always sought to find analytical solutions to the equations encountered in the different engineering sciences (... (Read more)
Jean Mbihi, University of Douala, Cameroon
March 2018
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 skill... (Read more)
The Creative Loop
Jean-Louis Ermine, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
March 2018
Knowledge Management is a strategic issue for both public and private companies and for standard-setting bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who have recently incorporat... (Read more)
Pierre-Emmanuel Arduin, Paris-Dauphine University, France
March 2018
Ever since people first began to communicate, they have implemented technologies to support the exchange of information. From the torch network of the Roman army, to the Internet, printing and telegraphy, these technologies led to threats that had to be ap... (Read more)
Innovation to Conquer New Markets
Noémie Dominguez, IAE Lyon, France
March 2018
A vector of opportunities and threats, the international market is a real challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Gateway strategies – the process of setting up in one country in order to re-export to neighboring third-party markets ... (Read more)
Production and Validation of Scientific Results
Edited by
Renaud Fabre, Former Director of Scientific and Technical Information, CNRS, France
Alain Bensoussan, Bensoussan-Lexing
in collaboration with Lucile Collin,
Marie Blanquart and Louki-Géronimo Richou
March 2018
The tidal wave of new and digital technologies has not spared the field of scientific research. As a result of the economy’s shift towards the development of services and the spread of the production of data, two simultaneously opposing and complementary... (Read more)
Edited by
Angela Barthes, Aix-Marseille University, France
Pierre Champollion, Lyon University, France
Yves Alpe, Aix-Marseille University, France
March 2018
This book represents an up-to-date summary on the issue of education and territory. By questioning the relationship between education and territory according to three main axes – historical evolutions, contemporary interactions and original theorizations... (Read more)
Description and Application to the Photoionization of Atomic Systems
Ibrahima Sakho, University Assane Seck of Ziguinchor, Senegal
February 2018
Experimental studies on the photoionization of atomic systems have been further developed by the launch of satellites observing astrophysical plasmas (Chandra and XMM Newton, for example). However, one of the challenges inherent to these studies is the ver... (Read more)
Jean Salençon, French Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Technologies
February 2018
This book centers on the principle of virtual work and its related method for mechanical modeling. It demonstrates and enhances the polyvalence and versatility of the virtual work approach to the mechanical modeling process. Virtual work is set as the p... (Read more)
Edited by
Nicolas Baghdadi, IRSTEA, France
Clément Mallet, National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information, France
Mehrez Zribi, CNRS, France
February 2018
The QGIS in Remote Sensing Set aims to facilitate the appropriation and operational use of the Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) software in the field of remote sensing. Over the past 15 years, Geographic Information Systems have become centr... (Read more)
Edited by
Nicolas Baghdadi, IRSTEA, France
Clément Mallet, National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information, France
Mehrez Zribi, CNRS, France
February 2018
The QGIS in Remote Sensing Set aims to facilitate the appropriation and operational use of the Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) software in the field of remote sensing. This fourth volume of the set is dedicated to the presentation and the p... (Read more)
Equilibriums and Small Movements
Michel Borel, Consultant
Georges Vénizélos, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), France
February 2018
The set of books on Non-deformable Solid Mechanics, of which this book is the fourth volume, is an essential tool for those looking to develop a rigorous knowledge of the discipline, whether students, professionals (in search of an approach to a problem th... (Read more)
The Birth of a New Intelligence
Fernando Iafrate, Disneyland Paris, France
February 2018
This book is a continuation of the author’s previous work, From Big Data to Smart Data (2015), which explored Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of data exploitation, self-learning and autonomous processing. With the idea of “deep learning... (Read more)
Concepts and Fuzzy Handling
Lamia Berrah, University Savoie Mont Blanc, France
Vincent Clivillé, University Savoie Mont Blanc, France
Laurent Foulloy, University Savoie Mont Blanc, France
February 2018
There are desires that we feel, inadequacies that we notice, improvements that we consider… As for each of these situations, it is from the declaration of an expected value that we recognize the objective notion. This book explores this process withi... (Read more)
Ammar Grous, University of Haute Alsace, France
February 2018
Written using both imperial and metric systems, this book presents numerous case studies relevant to both industrial and academic domains. These studies, detailed according to class and industry, focus on real projects and are provided along with succinct ... (Read more)
History and Developments
Christian Lardier, IFHE
Stefan Barensky, Aerospatium
February 2018
The Proton launcher, which has completed over 410 launches since 1965, was the European launch system Ariane’s biggest competitor on the commercial market. It was developed by Vladimir Tchelomei, who inherited the German missile V-1 in 1944, carried out ... (Read more)
Planning and Evaluation
Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Ecole des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France
February 2018
Urban logistics has been a topic of interest for researchers and practitioners for more than 40 years, but it remains difficult to address due to a lack of unification in the proposed definitions and methods. This book provides a logical, practical and... (Read more)
Nathalie Godin, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon, France
Pascal Reynaud, CNRS, France
Gilbert Fantozzi, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon, France
February 2018
One of the issues in structural health control is the early detection of damage before it leads to ruin. In this context, acoustic emission is a technique well adapted to monitoring, in real time, the health of a structure or the materials that constitute ... (Read more)
Françoise Cros, National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris, France
February 2018
Innovation, venerated over the past two centuries in Western society, has not always been considered so positively. This book takes stock of the meanings generated by innovation, in particular by social innovation, clearly distinct from technological in... (Read more)
Theoretical Model and Practical Guide
Nadine Mandran, Consultant
February 2018
This book provides insight into a new methodology in human-centered computing research. THEDRE (Traceable Human Experiment Design Research) is a methodology which values the integration of the individual into the construction and evaluation process of ... (Read more)
Philippe Sachetti and Thibaud Zuppinger, pH6
February 2018
In this changing environment, new technologies and manipulation techniques are rendering our defense schemes obsolete. No brand is immune from opposition. Through means of reflections, case studies and theoretical panoramas, this book is a valuable guide f... (Read more)
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