The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...
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Ambient intelligence is the vision of a technology that will become invisibly embedded in our natural surroundings, present ...
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Achieves three primary goals: To improve the understanding and implementation of the Construction (Design and Management) ...
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The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household ...
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An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering introduces software engineering to advanced-level undergraduate and graduate ...
Continue readingA didactic concept is undertaken for microelectronics, computer technology and communication engineering, which deals with ...
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This book presents a comprehensive introduction to computational micromechanics, including basic homogenization theory, microstructural ...
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Interestingly, notions that pertain to di?erential geometry per se,suchas covariant derivatives of tensor ?elds, are also ...
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The use of various types of wave energy is an increasingly promising, non-destructive means of detecting objects and of diagnosing ...
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This book provides an introduction into the ethics of robots and artificial intelligence. The book was written with university ...
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This book presents the foundations of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena in a concise way. It is suitable as an introduction ...
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Knowledge Engineering refers to the development of systems that use knowledge, rather than data, to solve many novel computing ...
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This book aims to present meshfree methods in a friendly and straightforward manner, so that beginners can very easily understand, ...
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Provides the reader with a comprehensive introductory overview of ontology engineering. A secondary aim is to provide hands-on ...
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Provides an accessible introduction to knot theory, focussing on Vassiliev invariants, quantum knot invariants constructed ...
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This book gives an introduction to modern geometry. Starting from an elementary level the author develops deep geometrical ...
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Offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure ...
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This textbook gives an introduction to all three classes of geometry optimization problems of mechanical structures: sizing, ...
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This volume is intended to provide researchers and graduate students with the basic aspects of the continuum modeling of ...
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