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by Zijun Cao, Yu Wang, Dianqing Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This is the first book to revisit geotechnical site characterization from a probabilistic point of view and provide rational tools to probabilistically characterize geotechnical properties and underground stratigraphy using limited information obtained from a specific site. This book not only provides...
by Daniela Federici, Giancarlo Gandolfo
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This rigorous textbook tames technicalities and makes even the most complex models accessible to students. Its unique two-tier structure makes the book attractive for undergraduates, graduates and researchers alike. In fact, the coverage is primarily directed to undergraduate students and is mainly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Energy issues feature frequently in the economic and financial press. Specific examples of topical energy issues come from around the globe and often concern economics and finance. The importance of energy production, consumption and trade raises fundamental economic issues that impact the global...
Mitigating Climate Change
The Emerging Face of Modern Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
With ever increasing trends in urban consumption and production practices, a call for action to mitigate Climate Change is often seen as a way to foster sustainable development. Considerable attention is now being paid to determine what urban sustainability would include. Today there is a pressing...
Energy Economics
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book provides an introduction to energy economics. It shows how to apply general economic theory as well as empirical and advanced econometric methods to explain the drivers of energy markets and their development. Readers learn about the specific properties of energy markets as well as the physical,...
Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence
International Workshops, BIRTE 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 26, 2013, and BIRTE 2014, Hangzhou, China, September 1, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2013, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in August 2013 and of the 8th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise,...
Cyber Security and Privacy
Trust in the Digital World and Cyber Security and Privacy EU Forum 2013, Brussels, Belgium, April 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed, selected papers on Cyber Security and Privacy EU Forum 2013, held in Belgium, in April 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cloud computing,...
How Unified Is the European Union?
European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
World politics has been surprised recently by two sudden developments. The first took place around the beginning of 2007, when the question of global warming rose abruptly to the top of the agenda, after having been a factor in the background. The second occurred in the autumn of 2008, when the rules...
Urbanization and Locality
Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-Specific Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Based on a discussion of conflicts in the urbanization process, this book provides theoretical and practical solutions for the preservation and development of urban localities. On the basis of informative case studies, it reveals the similarities and unique aspects of urbanization in Germany and China....
Greece's Horizons
Reflecting on the Country's Assets and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of the...
Operations Research
A Model-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The book covers the standard models and techniques used in decision making in organizations. The main emphasis of the book is on modeling business-related scenarios and the generation of decision alternatives. Fully solved examples from many areas are used to illustrate the main concepts without getting...
Voice over IP Networks
Quality of Service, Pricing and Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
This book addresses three important issues in VoIP networks: Quality of Service, pricing and security.
In addressing Quality of Service (QoS), it introduces the notion of delay not exceeding an upper limit, termed the bounded delay, to measure the Quality of Service in VoIP networks. Queuing...
by Stefan Scherer, Matthias R. Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Chiral Perturbation Theory, as effective field theory, is a commonly accepted and well established working tool, approximating quantum chromodynamics at energies well below typical hadron masses.
This volume, based on a number of lectures and supplemented with additional material, provides...
Innovation Policy and Governance in High-Tech Industries
The Complexity of Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
The book examines the conditions for successful high-technology policy from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It enhances the predominant national systems of innovation approach to innovation policy with concepts based on new developments in the governance of complex systems and processes. The...