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Intelligent methods are used in distributed environments in
countless ways, with examples such as propagation, communication,
collaboration, and cooperation. With the abundant purposes for
intelligence in distributed systems, it is pertinent for
researchers, technicians, and students in various areas of computer
science to discover the most current and definitive advances in the
field.""Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge
Management"" provides recent technologies and practices in
intelligence for distributed systems, while covering major aspects
of the agent based systems. This book is a must for those striving
to enhance their understanding of distributed knowledge management
and extend their ideas of cooperation using for numerous real-world
problems.
This book highlights recent research on sustainable production. In
today's manufacturing industry, cleaner production has become a
central goal. "Sustainable production" describes activities that
pose no threat to future generations and are not pursued at their
expense. In addition, sustainable production is a concept that can
improve environmental performance and focuses on technical aspects
that can be used to improve efficiency and productivity.
Sustainable production is not limited to the manufacturing sector,
but affects all production sectors including energy, environment,
and material systems - all of which face significant challenges in
connection with sustainability, e.g. efforts to reduce production's
impact on the environment and to manage health and safety impacts.
Key means of reducing environmental pollution from manufacturing
involve reducing the main resources used in production (metals used
in the machining processes, fluids/oils in production, water, and
energy).
This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of
four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian,
Welsh, Scots and Breton. The author examines the different
strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive
literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when
self-determination had been promised to national minorities,
finding that each had to make some degree of a step backwards into
the past to enable them to make a leap forward. The book also
discusses the problems resulting from this oscillation between
traditionalism and modernism, drawing on concepts such as Pascale
Casanova's 'litteratures combatives' to make sense of these
minority languages and communities within the wider European
context. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of
minority languages - particularly the four explored here - as well
as twentieth-century and comparative literature, multilingualism,
and language policy.
The objective of this book is to contribute to the development of
the intelligent information and database systems with the
essentials of current knowledge, experience and know-how. The book
contains a selection of 40 chapters based on original research
presented as posters during the 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent
Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2016) held on 14-16 March
2016 in Da Nang, Vietnam. The papers to some extent reflect the
achievements of scientific teams from 17 countries in five
continents. The volume is divided into six parts: (a) Computational
Intelligence in Data Mining and Machine Learning, (b) Ontologies,
Social Networks and Recommendation Systems, (c) Web Services, Cloud
Computing, Security and Intelligent Internet Systems, (d) Knowledge
Management and Language Processing, (e) Image, Video, Motion
Analysis and Recognition, and (f) Advanced Computing Applications
and Technologies. The book is an excellent resource for
researchers, those working in artificial intelligence, multimedia,
networks and big data technologies, as well as for students
interested in computer science and other related fields.
This book reviews various aspects of molecular spectroscopy and its
application in materials science, chemistry, physics, medicine, the
arts and the earth sciences. Written by an international group of
recognized experts, it examines how complementary applications of
diverse spectroscopic methods can be used to study the structure
and properties of different materials. The chapters cover the whole
spectrum of topics related to theoretical and computational
methods, as well as the practical application of spectroscopic
techniques to study the structure and dynamics of molecular
systems, solid-state crystalline and amorphous materials, surfaces
and interfaces, and biological systems. As such, the book offers an
invaluable resource for all researchers and postgraduate students
interested in the latest developments in the theory,
experimentation, measurement and application of various advanced
spectroscopic methods for the study of materials.
This book presents recent research in intelligent information and
database systems. The carefully selected contributions were
initially accepted for presentation as posters at the 9th Asian
Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS
2017) held from to 5 April 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan. While the
contributions are of an advanced scientific level, several are
accessible for non-expert readers. The book brings together 47
chapters divided into six main parts: * Part I. From Machine
Learning to Data Mining.* Part II. Big Data and Collaborative
Decision Support Systems,* Part III. Computer Vision Analysis,
Detection, Tracking and Recognition,* Part IV. Data-Intensive Text
Processing,* Part V. Innovations in Web and Internet Technologies,
and* Part VI. New Methods and Applications in Information and
Software Engineering. The book is an excellent resource for
researchers and those working in algorithmics, artificial and
computational intelligence, collaborative systems, decision
management and support systems, natural language processing, image
and text processing, Internet technologies, and information and
software engineering, as well as for students interested in such
research areas.
"Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production" describes the
principles and materials challenges for the conversion of sunlight
into hydrogen through water splitting at a semiconducting
electrode. Readers will find an analysis of the solid state
properties and materials requirements for semiconducting
photo-electrodes, a detailed description of the
semiconductor/electrolyte interface, in addition to the
photo-electrochemical (PEC) cell. Experimental techniques to
investigate both materials and PEC device performance are outlined,
followed by an overview of the current state-of-the-art in PEC
materials and devices, and combinatorial approaches towards the
development of new materials. Finally, the economic and business
perspectives of PEC devices are discussed, and promising future
directions indicated.
Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production is a one-stop resource
for scientists, students and R&D practitioners starting in this
field, providing both the theoretical background as well as useful
practical information on photoelectrochemical measurement
techniques. Experts in the field benefit from the chapters on
current state-of-the-art materials/devices and future
directions.
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Zeolites (Hardcover)
Magdalena Krol, Paulina Florek
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R1,269
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This volume provides an ample overview of state-of-the-art
understanding of the multi-dimensional phenomenon of migration, in
the characterisation of migration drivers, in environmental and
agro-economic case studies and modelling issues as well as
socio-political analyses. The analysis is geared to the
consequences of climatic change, and the effects on soil, water and
extreme weather that will drive populations to migrate.
This book provides essential background knowledge on the
development of model-based real-world solutions in the field of
control and decision making for water systems. It presents system
engineering methods for modelling surface water and groundwater
resources as well as water transportation systems (rivers, channels
and pipelines). The models in turn provide information on both the
water quantity (flow rates, water levels) of surface water and
groundwater and on water quality. In addition, methods for
modelling and predicting water demand are described. Sample
applications of the models are presented, such as a water
allocation decision support system for semi-arid regions, a
multiple-criteria control model for run-of-river hydropower plants,
and a supply network simulation for public services.
This contributed volume is a result of discussions held at
ABICT'13(4th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT) in
Krakow, September 8-11, 2013. The book focuses on Advances in
Business ICT approached from a multidisciplinary perspective and
demonstrates different ideas and tools for developing and
supporting organizational creativity, as well as advances in
decision support systems.This book is an interesting resource for
researchers, analysts and IT professionals including software
designers. The book comprises eleven chapters presenting research
results on business analytics in organization, business processes
modeling, problems with processing big data, nonlinear time
structures and nonlinear time ontology application, simulation
profiling, signal processing (including change detection problems),
text processing and risk analysis.
"Propagation, which looks at spreading in complex networks, can be
seen from many viewpoints; it is undesirable, or desirable,
controllable, the mechanisms generating that propagation can be the
topic of interest, but in the end all depends on the setting. This
book covers leading research on a wide spectrum of propagation
phenomenon and the techniques currently used in its modelling,
prediction, analysis and control. Fourteen papers range over topics
including epidemic models, models for trust inference, coverage
strategies for networks, vehicle flow propagation, bio-inspired
routing algorithms, P2P botnet attacks and defences, fault
propagation in gene-cellular networks, malware propagation for
mobile networks, information propagation in crisis situations,
financial contagion in interbank networks, and finally how to
maximize the spread of influence in social networks. The compendium
will be of interest to researchers, those working in social
networking, communications and finance and is aimed at providing a
base point for further studies on current research. Above all, by
bringing together research from such diverse fields, the book seeks
to cross-pollinate ideas, and give the reader a glimpse of the
breath of current research."
Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide range of expertise and knowledge (from integrated water analyses to transregional migration) is necessary to understand the complex relationship between natural and socio-economic systems. Tools to integrate this knowledge and make it available for the strategic planning of sustainable development are described. This book is a summary of the main research results and the presentations given at the final conference of the WAVES Program on June 25-26 2001 in Fortaleza (Brazil).
This book discusses the effective use of modern ICT solutions for
business needs, including the efficient use of IT resources,
decision support systems, business intelligence, data mining and
advanced data processing algorithms, as well as the processing of
large datasets (inter alia social networking such as Twitter and
Facebook, etc.). The ability to generate, record and process
qualitative and quantitative data, including in the area of big
data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing offers a
real prospect of significant improvements for business, as well as
the operation of a company within Industry 4.0. The book presents
new ideas, approaches, solutions and algorithms in the area of
knowledge representation, management and processing, quantitative
and qualitative data processing (including sentiment analysis),
problems of simulation performance, and the use of advanced signal
processing to increase the speed of computation. The solutions
presented are also aimed at the effective use of business process
modeling and notation (BPMN), business process semantization and
investment project portfolio selection. It is a valuable resource
for researchers, data analysts, entrepreneurs and IT professionals
alike, and the research findings presented make it possible to
reduce costs, increase the accuracy of investment, optimize
resources and streamline operations and marketing.
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Deming (Hardcover)
Laura V Krol
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R781
R653
Discovery Miles 6 530
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This book provides an up-to-date review of the status and prospects
of different options in energy conversion and storage technologies,
as seen by a panel of world leading experts. It offers a platform
for readers engaged in planning and undertaking new energy
solutions or retrofitting and redesigning the existing
installations to confront and to compare the pros and cons of
various novel technology options. Contributing articles cover new
clean and zero-emission coal technologies, solar, wind, nuclear,
fuel cells, hydrogen and hybrid technologies, accompanied by
treatises on the challenge of increasing global energy needs and
consumption, issues of sustainability, and on specific ideas for
efficient production and use of energy based on modern rationing
technologies.
This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of
four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian,
Welsh, Scots and Breton. The author examines the different
strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive
literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when
self-determination had been promised to national minorities,
finding that each had to make some degree of a step backwards into
the past to enable them to make a leap forward. The book also
discusses the problems resulting from this oscillation between
traditionalism and modernism, drawing on concepts such as Pascale
Casanova's 'litteratures combatives' to make sense of these
minority languages and communities within the wider European
context. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of
minority languages - particularly the four explored here - as well
as twentieth-century and comparative literature, multilingualism,
and language policy.
This book provides essential background knowledge on the
development of model-based real-world solutions in the field of
control and decision making for water systems. It presents system
engineering methods for modelling surface water and groundwater
resources as well as water transportation systems (rivers, channels
and pipelines). The models in turn provide information on both the
water quantity (flow rates, water levels) of surface water and
groundwater and on water quality. In addition, methods for
modelling and predicting water demand are described. Sample
applications of the models are presented, such as a water
allocation decision support system for semi-arid regions, a
multiple-criteria control model for run-of-river hydropower plants,
and a supply network simulation for public services.
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