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The simplicity and flexibility of the loop-shaping approach make it highly useful in industrial applications. This book presents this approach in its entirety, starting with the declension of high-level specifications into a loop-shaping specification.

With the impact of the recent financial crises, more attention must be given to new models in finance rejecting Black-Scholes-Samuelson assumptions leading to what is called non-Gaussian finance.

This book provides engineers with complete guidance to the modeling and applications of nonlinear beams and cables. It begins by formulating nonlinear models of elastic and visco-elastic one-dimensional continuous structures.

Multi-factor Models and Signal Processing Techniques surveys the most widely used factor models employed in the realm of the financial asset pricing field.

Wall bounded turbulent flows are of major importance in industrial and environmental fluid mechanics. The structure of the wall turbulence is intrinsically related to the coherent structures that play a fundamental role in the transport process.

Generally, books on mathematical statistics are restricted to the case of independent identically distributed random variables. In this book however, both this case AND the case of dependent variables, i.e. statistics for discrete and continuous time processes, are studied. This second case is very important for today s practitioners.

The electrochemical energy storage is a means to conserve electrical energy in chemical form. This form of storage benefits from the fact that these two energies share the same vector, the electron. This advantage allows us to limit the losses related to the conversion of energy from one form to another. The RS2E focuses its research on rechargeable electrochemical devices (or electrochemical storage) batteries and supercapacitors. The materials used in the electrodes are key components of lithium-ion batteries. Their nature depend battery performance in terms of mass and volume capacity, energy density, power, durability, safety, etc. This book deals with current and future positive and negative electrode materials covering aspects related to research new and better materials for future applications (related to renewable energy storage and transportation in particular), bringing light on the mechanisms of operation, aging and failure.

This book discusses management and engineering innovation with a particular emphasis on human resource management (HRM) and production engineering.

* Offers a comprehensive overview of major existing M2M and AMI protocols * Covers the system aspects of large scale M2M and smart grid applications * Focuses on system level architecture, interworking, and nationwide use cases * Explores 3 recent emerging technologies: CoAP, ZigBee SE 2.

This book focuses on signal processing algorithms based on the timefrequency domain. Original methods and algorithms are presented which are able to extract information from non-stationary signals such as heart sounds and power electric signals.

This text examines the characteristics and functions of microwave engineering on the nano-scale level. It addresses a variety of topics relating to industrial purposes, including miniaturization, function densification, 1D and 2D nanostructures, and their atomic structures.

This text introduces theories of bistatic technology as it relates to synthetic aperture, inverse synthetic aperture, and forward scattering radars. With applications of high informative linear frequency and phase code modulating techniques, the book addresses the topics of signal formation and image reconstruction algorithms.

This book addresses those involved in research or R&D. It introduces the principles of eco-innovation and the importance of the impact of their activity. This topic is considered in the context of natural and digital ecosystems powered by intelligent assistants (technology).

The ambitious goal of reaching a detailed understanding of electrochemical reactions mechanisms within and on the surface of the constituent materials of Li-ion batteries has generated the development of an arsenal of physicochemical characterization techniques, especially in situ or operando, which are the subject of this contribution.

Dedicated to remote sensing images, from their acquisition to their use in various applications, this book covers the global lifecycle of images, including sensors and acquisition systems, applications such as movement monitoring or data assimilation, and image and data processing. It is organized in three main parts.

This book describes the potentialities of metaheuristics for solving production scheduling problems and the relationship between these two fields. For the past several years, there has been an increasing interest in using metaheuristic methods to solve scheduling problems.

Through its highly practical approach alternating physics related to the studied techniques and the clinical examinations of images, MRI Techniques helps students, radiologists, scientists, researchers, and engineers grasp the sequences used in the various MRI fields.

This book presents a thorough treatment of the theory of denumerable Markov chains, both in discrete and in continuous time. In continuous time, it carefully examines the explosion phenomenon and the Kolmogorov equations. It then applies these results to birth and death processes.

This book offers an approach to conducting a risk analysis from the beginning to the end, based on the ISO31000 standard.

This new, up-to-date text supplements the book Fatigue of Materials and Structures, which had been previously published by ISTE and John Wiley in 2011.

Nanophotonicsis a comprehensive introduction to the emerging area concerned with controlling and shaping optical fields at a subwavelength scale. Photonic crystals and microcavities are extensively described, including non-linear optical effects. Local-probe techniques are presented and are used to characterize plasmonic devices.

The central theme of the chapters is acoustic propagation in fluid media, dissipative or non-dissipative, homogeneous or nonhomogeneous, infinite or limited, placing particular emphasis on the theoretical formulation of the problems considered.

This book presents a physical approach to the diffraction phenomenon and its applications in materials science. An historical background to the discovery of X-ray diffraction is first outlined. Next, Part 1 gives a description of the physical phenomenon of X-ray diffraction on perfect and imperfect crystals.

The lead-acid accumulator was introduced in the middle of the 19th Century, the diverse variants of nickel accumulators between the beginning and the end of the 20th Century. Although old, these technologies are always very present on numerous markets.

Defined as the progressive loss of material from the operating surface of a body occurring as a result of relative motion at the surface, wear is rarely catastrophic but it does reduce the operating efficiency of machine components and structures, leading to a major economic impact.

Generally a laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) is defined as a device which uses a quantum mechanical effect, stimulated emission, to generate a coherent beam of light from a lasing medium of controlled purity, size, and shape .

The main properties that make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) a promising technology for many future applications are: extremely high strength, low mass density, linear elastic behavior, almost perfect geometrical structure, and nanometer scale structure. Also, CNTs can conduct electricity better than copper and transmit heat better than diamonds.

This book reviews various aspects of radiation/matter interactions, including instrumental developments, the application of the interaction of X-rays and materials to a particular scientific field, and specific methodological approaches. The book draws on lectures from the RX2009 X-rays and Materials colloquium, delivered by experts in the field.

This book offers an in-depth treatment of the principles and applications of digital holography. The main focus is on the fundamentals of diffraction theory, including the numerical computation of diffracted fields using FFT algorithms, as well as the principles of holography and digital holography, including digital color holography.