Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Focuses on the process of innovation in order to understand the features of a well-managed innovation effort. This book is designed around six main themes, and provides perspectives into the innovation process.

Discusses the advances in the area of near-field Raman scattering, focusing on tip-enhanced and surface-enhanced Raman scattering. This work covers such features as: the optical structuring and manipulations, single molecule sensitivity, analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes, and analytic applications in chemistry, and material sciences.

Linking deep-water process sedimentology with sandstone petroleum reservoirs, this book offers a process interpretation based on 35 case studies (which include 32 petroleum reservoirs), carried out during 1974-2004. It addresses the criteria for recognizing deposits of gravity-driven, thermohaline-driven, wind-driven, and tide-driven processes.

Provides an understanding of the role that proteins and peptides play in health and disease. This book exemplifies the variety as well as the traditional basis of analytical chemistry that is needed in order to move forward in expression analysis studies.

Deals with the study of three important volcanisms in the Campania Plain: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites. The authors, for their interpretations, utilize thermodynamic and quantitative mass balance modelling of major and trace element data and semi-quantitative limits on Th and Sr isotopes to evaluate the role of crystal-melt separation.

Familiarizes both popular and fundamental notions and techniques from the theory of non-normed topological algebras with involution, demonstrating with examples and basic results the necessity of this perspective. This book focuses on the Hilbert-space (bounded) representation theory of topological algebras and their topological tensor products.

Approaches the basic limitations of reservoir engineering with basic tenet of science: Occam's Razor, which applies to reservoir engineering to a greater extent than for most physical sciences. This work is suitable for reservoir and production engineers, geoscientists, petrophysicists, and those involved in the management of oil and gas fields.

Covers those chemical processes that occur in the pressure regime of 0.5-200 GPa and temperature range of 500-5000 K. This work includes chapters organised into four themes of applications and includes: biological and bioinorganic systems; Experimental works on the transformations in small molecular systems; and others.

Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system. This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices, and guidelines for developing adaptive systems, and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. . Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, how to architect a system for adaptability, software architecture for self-adaptive systems, understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved, architectural patterns for self-adaptive systems, how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system, how to connect the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and more.