Books in the SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology series

This book provides a thorough overview of the applications of 3D printing technologies to ubiquitous manufacturing (UM).

This book introduces a variety of neural network methods for solving differential equations arising in science and engineering.

The book provides a snapshot of a hot topic - the systemic nature of innovation and its relevance to design - with a trifold perspective: the academic level - the literature on innovation studies and design is often neglected and a clear connection between the two topics taken for granted;

This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful adoption and implementation.

This book explores the factors that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of electronic government (e-Government) by analyzing two employment- service systems in Italy and Catalonia: the Borsa Lavoro Lombardia Portal (Lombardy Employment Services Portal) and the Servei d'Ocupacio de Catalunya (Catalan Employment Services Portal).

This volume presents a comprehensive system for categorizing carbon nanotubes and their modifications in terms of nano sheets, nanotubes, microscopic and atomic modifications. Lastly, it introduces a number of common software packages for geometry generation and several commercial finite element programs.

This book provides a broad set of information and data on the rise of private actors in the space sector, organized into different topics covering the various trends that have shaped the space sector during the last decade. The book, written in a descriptive fashion, concludes with recommendations for future analytical research on the topic.

Industrial partners involved in Manutelligence provide a clear overview of the project's outcomes, and demonstrate how its technological solutions can be used to improve the design of product-service systems and the management of product-service life cycles.

This book offers an overview of audio processing, including the latest advances in the methodologies used in audio processing and speech recognition. It then offers brief insights into the human speech production system and its modeling, which are required to produce artificial speech.

This concise volume provides an introduction to the working principles, design, and construction of air-stable inverted organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which lead to the realization of practical flexible electronics.

This book is a first step towards understanding the complexity of corporate environmental strategy while explaining the relationships between the numerous dimensions of the concept.

The book presents compression techniques for digital video stream, describing their design using various image transforms, such as discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and singular value decomposition (SVD).

Finally, the potential of PV systems, as a promising solution to increasing electricity access and improving the reliability of electricity supply in this tropical country, is presented.

This book develops, implements and thoroughly evaluates a three-phase distribution system state estimation (DSSE) model. This book presents a focused account of three-phase DSSE, making it of interest to postgraduate students, researchers and engineers in the field of power systems and distribution systems.

This book describes an innovative closed-loop concept that allows the feedback of online data from operational monitoring to create mining intelligence. The application of this concept promises significant improvements in economic and environmental key performance indicators for any mining operation.Combining theory with industrial case studies, the book guides readers through this process by providing theoretical background, addressing practical issues related to operational implementation, and illustrating the impact on selected examples. This new concept is presented using the example of a bulk and gold mining application, but is applicable at any mine where grade control is important.The book is of interest to industrial professionals involved in operational monitoring, mining intelligence, and mine planning optimization, as well as to researchers and academics in the field of applied geostatistics.

This book presents detailed explanations of how to formulate field development plans for oil and gas discovery. It shows readers in both the oil and gas industry and in academia how to prepare field development plans in a straightforward way, and with substantially less uncertainty.

This book discusses in detail the latest trends in sentiment analysis,focusing on "how online reviews and feedback reflect the opinions of users and have led to a major shift in the decision-making process at organizations." Social networking has become essential in today's society.

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control. The first part of the book addresses modelling and feedback control in inelastic structures and presents a design for PD/PID controllers.

This book provides deep insights about the fundamentals, applications and perspectives of the use of supercritical CO2 as solvent and antisolvent for biorefinering.

This book discusses the use of converged technology, a rapidly growing area that enhancements smart devices, communication, Internet of things (IoT), and augmented reality (AR).

This book covers the application to two mutation models: single step mutation for microsatellite loci and single-base substitutions.

This book adopts a practical approach and presents recent research together with applications in real submarine design and operation.

Different structures of the neuro-fuzzy classifier are also comparatively analyzed to find the optimum structure of the classifier used.