Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Explains the crucial role of techniques in a variety of applications including: personal agent assistants; computer and network security; opponent modeling in games and simulation systems; coordination in robots and software agents; web e-commerce and collaborative filtering; dialog modeling; video surveillance; and smart homes.

As deepwater wells are drilled to greater depths, pipeline engineers and designers are confronted with new problems. This book offers coverage of topics ranging from pipe installation and routing selection and planning to design, construction, and installation of pipelines in some of the harshest underwater environments around the world.

Teaches you the basic building blocks of programming needed to create advanced graphics applications including interactive art, live video processing, and data visualization. This title offers graphic and web designers working with the Processing programming environment instructions on the basic principles of the language.

A guide to empirical research in human-computer interaction(HCI). It begins with foundational topics including historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research.

Provides a framework for analysis of public data and being generated by social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. This book introduces you to these techniques, shows you their application to different types of social media, and discusses how social media can be used as a tool for interacting with online public.

Suitable for chemical, plant and process engineers and provides reference on methods, process fundamentals and supporting design data, this title includes: expanded chapters on Heat Transfer; new chapters on the design of shell and tube heat exchangers, double pipe heat exchangers, air coolers; and more.

Suitable for engineers who design any products that require fragrances, such as perfumes, healthcare and cleaning products, this book provides practical guidance on perfume design, performance and classification, from its beginnings as a liquid mixture to the vapour phase, by way of odorant dispersion and olfactory perception.

Operational amplifiers are essential in modern electronics design, and are used in medical devices, communications technology, optical networks, and sensor interfacing. This book gives engineers all the methods, techniques and tricks that they need to optimize their analog electronic designs.

Natural products present in the plant and animal kingdom offer a diversity of chemical structures which are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. This title covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products.