Electronic Books

Semiotics : the basics / Daniel Chandler

Provides a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what ...

Semiotics and visual communication : concepts and practices / Evripides Zantides

Within a semiotic framework, the book explores research questions under five main thematic areas: Architectural, Spatial ...

Semiotics and visual communication II : Culture of seduction / Evripides Zantides

Seduction has historic and increasing agency in visual communication—the urgency to entice viewers is ever more powerful ...

Sensing Issues in Civil Structural Health Monitoring

Civil infrastructure systems are generally the most expensive assets in any country, and these systems are deteriorating ...

Sensor Networks and Configuration

Advances in networking influence many kinds of monitoring and control systems in the most dramatic way. Sensor network and ...

Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks : Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects

The book features valuable discussions of relevant concepts that examine the various approaches which define emerging theoretical ...

Sensors : Advancements in Modeling, Design Issues, Fabrication and Practical Applications

Sensors are the most important component in any system and engineers in any field need to understand the fundamentals of ...

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

The book includes an overview chapter outlining the current challenges and future directions of sepsis management as well ...

Sequence Analysis and Modern C++ : The Creation of the SeqAn3 Bioinformatics Library / Hannes Hauswedell

Every developer who previously worked with C++ will enjoy the in-depth chapter on important changes in the language from ...

Sequence Data Mining

Sequence Data Mining provides balanced coverage of the existing results on sequence data mining, as well as pattern types ...

Series Approximation Methods in Statistics

This book was originally compiled for a course I taught at the University of Rochester in the fall of 1991, and is intended ...

Serotonin and Sleep: Molecular, Functional and Clinical Aspects

Serotonin and Sleep: Molecular, Functional, and Clinical Aspects covers the complete spectrum of the field and explores the ...

Service Availability

Program Chairs’ Message th The 4 International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2007) continued with the tradition ...

Service Availability (vol. # 3335)

Service Availability (vol. # 3694)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Service Availability Symposium, ...

Service Availability (vol. # 4328)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Service Availability Symposium, ...

Service Availability : 5th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2008 Tokyo, Japan, May 19-21, 2008 Proceedings

The book is organized in topical sections on enterprise system dependability, software service availability, service availability ...

Service Chain Management

Service chain management enables service organisations to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs through ...

Service Design Capabilities

This book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and provides a framework that guides design students, ...

Service Enterprise Integration

The book will present a variety of on-going efforts to provide new results and solutions to the problem of service productivity. ...