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Addressing challenges and developments in this growing field, this title discusses basic questions such as: Why and when is multiple sensor fusion necessary? How can the available measurements be characterized in such a case? What is the purpose and the specificity of information fusion processing in multiple sensor systems?

Network coding, a relatively new area of research, has evolved from the theoretical level to become a tool used to optimize the performance of communication networks wired, cellular, ad hoc, etc. The idea consists of mixing packets of data together when routing them from source to destination.

This book aims to deliver significant scientific progress on the problem of the erosion of geomaterials, focusing on the mechanical/physical aspect. The chapters oscillate between a phenomenological outlook that is well grounded in experiments, and an approach that can offer a modeling framework.

Today, cyber security, cyber defense, information warfare and cyber warfare issues are among the most relevant topics both at the national and international level. All the major states of the world are facing cyber threats and trying to understand how cyberspace could be used to increase power.

Virtual metal forming is nowadays inescapable when designing advanced mechanical components. This book reviews the most effective methods for modeling, simulating, and optimizing metal forming processes, presenting the main features of new, innovative methods currently being developed, which will no doubt be the industrial tools of tomorrow.

This collective work identifies the latest developments in the field of the automatic processing and analysis of digital color images. For researchers and students, it represents a critical state of the art on the scientific issues raised by the various steps constituting the chain of color image processing.

This book presents statistical models that have recently been developed within several research communities to access information contained in text collections.

In this book the authors identify the basic concepts and recent advances in the acquisition, perception, coding and rendering of color. The fundamental aspects related to the science of colorimetry in relation to physiology (the human visual system) are addressed, as are constancy and color appearance.

Boasting many benefits over radio systems, wireless optical communication has seen significant improvements over the last 30 years. This book addresses the free space optics currently in use for the exchange of information, covering channel properties, propagation models, link budgets, data processing, standards, health and safety issues, and more.

This timely book presents cutting-edge developments by experts in the field on the rapidly developing and scientifically challenging area of full-field measurement techniques used in solid mechanics including photoelasticity, grid methods, deflectometry, holography, speckle interferometry and digital image correlation.

The aim of this book is to promote interaction between engineering, finance and insurance, as these three domains have many models and methods of solution in common for solving real-life problems. The authors point out the strict inter-relations that exist among the diffusion models used in engineering, finance and insurance.

The goal of this book is to provide engineers and researchers the tools necessary for modelling, experimenting, and simulating these microflows as a preliminary step for designing and optimizing fluidic microsystems.

Optics is a science which covers a very large domain and is experiencing indisputable growth. It has enabled the development of a considerable number of instruments, the optical component or methodology of which is often the essential part of portent systems.

The family of statistical models known as Rasch models started with a simple model for responses to questions in educational tests presented together with a number of related models that the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch referred to as models for measurement.

The goal of this Handbook on UCITS is to provide a one-stop source for investors and asset managers, service providers, students, researchers, and practitioners to learn the necessary knowledge and analytical skills they need when setting up, managing and monitoring a UCITS fund.

Scientists largely attribute the recent deterioration of the electromagnetic environment to power electronics. This realization has spurred the study of methodical approaches to electromagnetic compatibility designs as explored in this text.

This book covers the impact of sustainable masonry on the environment, touting the many benefits of utilizing local and/or low embodied energy materials in the construction of sustainable buildings. .

Proportionate-type normalized least mean square (PtNLMS) offer low computational complexity and fast convergence times, for sparse impulse responses in network and acoustic echo cancellation applications. Introducing this important subject, this book then develops and analyzes these algorithms.

This book is a contribution to the definition of a model based system engineering (MBSE) approach, designed to meet the objectives laid out by the INCOSE. After pointing out the complexity that jeopardizes a lot of system developments, the book examines fundamental aspects of systems under consideration.

Mechatronics represents a unifying engineering science paradigm and an interdisciplinary knowledge area that addresses interactions in terms of ways of working and thinking, practical experiences, and theoretical knowledge. This book examines how, for instance, mechatronics engineering and mechatronics science are about different things.

A promising long-term evolution of surgery relies on intracorporeal microrobotics. This book reviews the physical and methodological principles, and the scientific challenges to be tackled to design and control such robots.

This book proposes systemic design methodologies applied to electrical energy systems, in particular integrated optimal design with modeling and optimization methods and tools. It is made up of six chapters dedicated to integrated optimal design.

This book presents the principles and techniques of program specialization a general method to make programs faster (and possibly smaller) when some inputs can be known in advance.

The growing occurrence of heterogeneous materials such as composites or coated substrates in structural parts makes it necessary for designers and scientists to deal with the specific features of the mechanical behavior of solid interfaces.

Presents recent developments of probabilistic assessment of systems dependability based on stochastic models, including graph theory, finite state automaton and language theory, for both dynamic and hybrid contexts. .

The dynamic of the Energy Transition is engaged in many region of the World. This is a real challenge for electric systems and a paradigm shift for existing distribution networks.

Providing a sound grounding in this challenging area, Energy Geostructures discusses the recent advances and current knowledge in the geotechnical design of energy geostructures. Energy geostructures have been a tremendous innovation in the field of foundation engineering and are rapidly spreading all around the world.

Utilizing heuristics to present some fundamentals of probability theory, this book discusses the ideas and concepts common to all random problems.

This book presents a general overview of the applications and use of geopositioning and GNSS for assisting the supervision and management of mobile terrestrial professions, information, traffic regulation, multimodal information, pedestrian mobility and indoor geopositioning, etc.

Fault-tolerant control theory is a well-studied topic but the use of the sets in detection, isolation and/or reconfiguration is rather tangential. The authors of this book propose a systematic analysis of the set-theoretic elements and devise approaches which exploit advanced elements within the field.