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This handbook presents state-of-the-art research in reinforcement
learning, focusing on its applications in the control and game
theory of dynamic systems and future directions for related
research and technology. The contributions gathered in this book
deal with challenges faced when using learning and adaptation
methods to solve academic and industrial problems, such as
optimization in dynamic environments with single and multiple
agents, convergence and performance analysis, and online
implementation. They explore means by which these difficulties can
be solved, and cover a wide range of related topics including: deep
learning; artificial intelligence; applications of game theory;
mixed modality learning; and multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Practicing engineers and scholars in the field of machine learning,
game theory, and autonomous control will find the Handbook of
Reinforcement Learning and Control to be thought-provoking,
instructive and informative.
This book analyses and quantifies how and where energy and water
are consumed by the ceramic sanitary-ware industry and provides
solutions as to how to reduce this. The whole production process is
mapped, including modelling methods. The book begins by providing
an introduction to ceramic sanitary-ware production and types of
factories casting technology. It then moves on to discuss the
process and energy modelling for the production line, analysis of
energy and water consumptions and proposals for improvements. The
last chapter presents the practical implementation of the selected
modelling configuration. This book is of particular interest to
water and energy management professionals within the ceramic
industry, but the methods are of interest to those in other
production industries as well.
For thousands of years, forest biomass or wood has been among the
main energy sources of humans around the world. Since the
industrial revolution, fossil fuels have replaced wood and become
the dominant source of energy. The use of fossil fuels has the
disadvantage of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse
gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO2), with the consequent
warming of global climate and changes in precipitation. In this
context, the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable energy
sources like forest biomass is among the ways to mitigate climate
change. This book summarizes recent experiences on how to manage
forest land to produce woody biomass for energy use and what are
the potentials to mitigate climate change by substituting fossil
fuels in energy production. In this context, the book addresses how
management can affect the supply of energy biomass using
short-rotation forestry and the conventional forestry applying long
rotations. Furthermore, the book outlines the close interaction
between the ecological systems and industrial systems, which
controls the carbon cycle between the atmosphere and biosphere. In
this context, sustainable forest management is a key to understand
and control indirect carbon emissions due to the utilization of
forest biomass (e.g. from management, harvesting and logistics, and
ecosystem processes), which are often omitted in assessing the
carbon neutrality of energy systems based on forest biomass. The
focus in this book is on forests and forestry in the boreal and
temperate zones, particularly in Northern Europe, where the woody
biomass is widely used in the energy industry for producing energy.
This book focuses on the fundamentals of blockchain technology
along with the means and methods of its integration with Internet
of Things (IoT). The book allows the reader to have a deeper
understanding of blockchain technology, IoT and various application
areas wherein both technologies can be implemented. The book serves
the purpose of providing knowledge about the fundamentals of
blockchain and IoT to a common reader along with allowing a
research scholar to identify some futuristic problem areas that
emerge from the convergence of both technologies. Furthermore, the
authors discuss relevant application areas such as smart city,
e-healthcare, smart travel, etc. throughout the course of the book.
The book also talks through a few case studies illustrating the
implementation and benefits of using blockchain and IoT. Provides a
comprehensive view of blockchain technology and its integration
with IoT; Facilitates in having a valuable understanding of various
application areas pertaining to blockchain and IoT; Assists the
reader in exploring new research areas wherein blockchain and IoT
can find their applicability based upon their list of benefits.
This book focuses on the combination of IoT and data science, in
particular how methods, algorithms, and tools from data science can
effectively support IoT. The authors show how data science
methodologies, techniques and tools, can translate data into
information, enabling the effectiveness and usefulness of new
services offered by IoT stakeholders. The authors posit that if IoT
is indeed the infrastructure of the future, data structure is the
key that can lead to a significant improvement of human life. The
book aims to present innovative IoT applications as well as ongoing
research that exploit modern data science approaches. Readers are
offered issues and challenges in a cross-disciplinary scenario that
involves both IoT and data science fields. The book features
contributions from academics, researchers, and professionals from
both fields.
Precisely matched unit-by-unit to the 2010 specification, providing
a no-nonsense approach to tackling the new specification. *Full
technical checks from JTL and an external technical reviewer on all
text and diagrams, so that tutors can take top quality reliable
content as a given. *Knowledge checks at the end of each chapter
including multiple choice questions get candidates to test what
they've learned, to help them keep track of their progress, and
retain their motivation.
This book presents the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the
International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Mechanical
Engineering (ICOFTIME 2020). The contents focus on latest research
in different areas of mechanical engineering such as additive
manufacturing, vibrations, robotics and automation, nano and smart
materials, green energy, supply chain management, aviation, and
biomechanics. The book also includes numerical and optimization
methods relevant for several real-life mechanical engineering
problems. Given its contents, this book will prove useful for
researchers and professionals alike.
The introduction of Li-ion batteries in 1991 created a tremendous
change in the handheld devices landscape. Since then, the energy
stored and put to use in palm-sized electronic devices has
quadrupled. Devices are continuously getting more power hungry,
outpacing battery development. Written by leading engineers in the
field, this cutting-edge resource helps professionals overcome this
challenge, offering them an insightful overview and in-depth guide
to the many varied areas of battery power management for portable
devices. Engineers may find the latest details on optimizing
charging circuits, developing battery gauges that provide the
longest possible run-time while ensuring data protection, and
utilizing safety circuits that provide multiple independent levels
of protection for highly energetic batteries. This unique book
features detailed design examples of whole systems, providing
practitioners with the real-world perspective needed to put this
knowledge into practice. Readers learn how to perfect their
designs, helping to ensure the development of devices that will
succeed in the fast-growing portable device marketplace.It is
suitable for electrical and power engineers whose work involves the
development of portable, industrial, medical, or military devices.
This book presents the design and development of an access control
architecture for the Internet of Things (IoT) systems. It considers
the significant authentication and authorization issues for
large-scale IoT systems, in particular, the need for access
control, identity management, delegation of access rights and the
provision of trust within such systems. It introduces a
policy-based access control approach for the IoT that provides
fine-grained access for authorized users to services while
protecting valuable resources from unauthorized access. Further,
the book discusses an identity-less, asynchronous and decentralized
delegation model for the IoT leveraging the advantage of blockchain
technology. It also presents an approach of attribute-based
identity and examines the notion of trust in an IoT context by
considering the uncertainty that exists in such systems. Fully
explaining all the techniques used, the book is of interest to
engineers, researchers and scientists working in the field of the
wireless sensor networks, IoT systems and their access control
management.
This book on Applied Operations Research and Financial Modelling in
Energy (AORFME) presents several applications of operations
research (OR) and financial modelling. The contributions by a group
of OR and Finance researchers focus on a variety of energy
decisions, presenting a quantitative perspective, and providing
policy implications of the proposed or applied methodologies. The
content is divided into three main parts: Applied OR I:
Optimization Approaches, Applied OR II: Forecasting Approaches and
Financial Modelling: Impacts of Energy Policies and Developments in
Energy Markets. The book appeals to scholars in economics, finance
and operations research, and to practitioners working in the energy
sector. This is the eighth volume in a series of books on energy
organized by the Centre for Energy and Value Issues (CEVI). For
this volume, CEVI collaborated with Hacettepe University's Energy
Markets Research and Application Center. The previous volumes in
the series are: Financial Aspects in Energy (2011), Energy
Economics and Financial Markets (2012), Perspectives on Energy Risk
(2014), Energy Technology and Valuation Issues (2015), Energy and
Finance (2016), Energy Economy, Finance and Geostrategy (2018), and
Financial Implications of Regulations in the Energy Industry
(2020).
This multimedia eBook establishes a solid foundation in the
essential principles of how signals interact with transmission
lines, how the physical design of interconnects affects
transmission line properties, and how to interpret single-ended and
differential time domain reflection (TDR) measurements to extract
important figures of merits and avoid common mistakes. This book
presents an intuitive understanding of transmission lines.
Instructional videos are provided in every chapter that cover
important aspects of the interconnect design and characterization
process. This video eBook helps establish foundations for designing
and characterizing the electrical properties of interconnects to
explain in a simplified way how signals propagate and interact with
interconnects and how the physical design of transmission
structures will impact performance. Never be intimidated by
impedance or differential pairs again.
Shale Oil represents a huge additional global fossil fuel
resource. However, extracting oil from the shale is no simple task;
much still needs to be understood to make the process more
cost-effective to increase economic flow rates. Clear and rigorous,
Oil Shale Production Process will prove useful for those scientists
and engineers already engaged in fossil fuel science and technology
as well as scientists, non-scientists, engineers, and non-engineers
who wish to gain a general overview or update of the science and
technology of fossil fuels. Not only does the book discuss the
production processes but also provides methods which should reduce
environmental footprint by properly addressing: surface mining and
extraction processes, in situ conversion process and
hydrotreatment.
Covers production processes technologies such as: surface mining
and retorting, in Situ Retoring and processes, direct and indirect
retorting and hydrotreatment for shale oil.
Methods which should reduce environmental footprint
Easy-to-read understand overview of the chemistry, engineering,
and technology of shale oil "
This book offers ideas to help improve digital technologies and
increase their efficiency during implementation and application for
researchers and practitioners. The outstanding position of the book
among others is that it dwells with cyber-physical systems'
progress and proposes ideas and finding around digital tools and
technologies and their application. A distinguished contribution is
in presenting results on Digital Twins development and application,
enhancing approaches of communication and information transferring
between cyber-physical systems connected within the Internet of
things platforms, computer linguistic as a part of cyber-physical
systems, intelligent cybersecurity and computer vision systems. The
target audience of this book also includes practitioners and
experts, as well as state authorities and representatives of
manufacturing and industry who are interested in creating and
implementing of cyber-physical systems in framework of
digitalization projects.
This book analyzes the formation and evolution of the giant
hydrocarbon reservoirs based on major basins onshore China. It
discusses exploration and research advantages of major basins in
China, such as Sichuan, Tarim, and Ordos Basins and also
systematically analyzes and summarizes the formation conditions,
distribution rules, and main controlling factors of deep oil and
gas fields. On this basis, it forecasts the exploration prospect of
China's onshore deep oil and gas, providing theoretical guidance
and technical support for deep oil and gas exploration breakthrough
and large-scale reserves growth. This book focuses on the analysis
and discussion of hydrocarbon generation mechanism of deep-paleo
source rocks, discusses the accumulation rules of cross-structural
reservoir formation and oil-gas enrichment in ancient strata, the
combination of gypsum-salt rocks and carbonate rocks, the potential
of oil and gas accumulation under salt, the main controlling
factors and distribution rules of deep oil and gas fields, and
preliminarily grasps the geological understanding of the formation
and distribution of deep-large oil and gas fields, namely 1abundant
hydrocarbon supplied by two types of source kitchens, 2three
large-scale lithologic reservoir rocks, 3hydrocarbon accumulation
controlled by three paleoes (paleouplift, paleoplatform margin, and
paleofaults), and 4reservoir formation across major tectonic
periods. The book serves as a guidance for both researchers and
students majoring in petroleum geology and other related fields.
Create affordable solid fuel blends that will burn efficiently
while reducing the carbon footprint. Solid Fuel Blending Handbook:
Principles, Practices, and Problems describes a new generation of
solid fuel blending processes. The book includes discussions on
such topics as flame structure and combustion performance, boiler
efficiency, capacity as influenced by flue gas volume and
temperature, slagging and fouling, corrosion, and emissions.
Attention is given to the major types of combustion systems
including stokers, pulverized coal, cyclone, and fluidized bed
boilers. Specific topics considered include chlorine in one or more
coals, alkali metals (e.g., K, Na) and alkali earth elements, and
related topics.
Coals of consideration include Appalachian, Interior Province,
and Western bituminous coals; Powder River Basin (PRB) and other
subbituminous coals; Fort Union and Gulf Coast lignites, and many
of the off-shore coals (e.g., Adaro coal, an Indonesian
subbituminous coal with very low sulfur; other off-shore coals from
Germany, Poland, Australia, South Africa, Columbia, and more).
Interactions between fuels and the potential for blends to be
different from the parent coals will be a critical focus of this of
the book.
One stop source to solid fuel types and blending processes
Evaluate combustion systems and calculate their efficiency
Recognize the interactions between fuels and their potential energy
out put Be aware of the Environmental Aspects of Fuel Blending
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