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This volume contains contributions from speakers at the 4th International Symposium on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in July 2005. The subject of these papers ranges from theoretical and numerical results to physical applications.

Micro and nanosystems represent a major scientific and technological challenge, with actual and potential applications in almost all fields of the human activity.

Sonar and Underwater Acoustics brings together all the concepts necessary for designers and users of sonar systems. Unlike other books on this subject, which are often too specialized, this book is accessible to a wider audience. The first part focuses on the acoustic environment, antenna structures, and electric acoustic interface.

* Illustrated by tutorials and laboratory models, it is accessible to users of non-specialists in the fields of design and manufacturing. * Chapters can be viewed independently of each other. * Focuses on technical geometric and dimensional tolerances as well as mechanical testing and quality control.

Scientific and technical knowledge for measurements in modern electromagnetism must be vast as our electromagnetic environment covers all frequencies and wavelengths. These measurements must be applied to fields as varied as nanotechnologies, telecommunications, meteorology, geolocalization, radioastronomy, health, biology, etc.

This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles: geospatial climate data measurement; spatial analysis, mapping and climate; geographical information, remote sensing and climatology; and geographical information for initialisation of forecasting and climate models.

* Gives the reader a complete but comprehensive presentation of the foundations of convex analysis and presents applications to significant situations in engineering. * The presentation of the theory is self-contained and the proof of all the essential results is given.

This book describes the various devices used in radio communication and broadcasting to achieve high selectivity filtering and coupling.

The concept of an inverse problem is a familiar one to most scientists and engineers, particularly in the field of signal and image processing, imaging systems (medical, geophysical, industrial non-destructive testing, etc. ) and computer vision.

* Establishes general equations of electromechanical energyconversion first and then applies them to synchronous,induction, and DC machines. The characteristics are established aswell for steady state behavior as for variable speed. * Shows new applications (wind mills, electric propulsion of bigships,.).

With regard to the problems identified by many researchers relating to the storage and processing of (semi-)structured digital data, accessibility and sharing, intellectual property, digital documents, information retrieval, information literacy, the relevance of information, information profiles of users, etc.

* Part 1: "Systems of systems: concepts and practical illustrations" is a multidisciplinary work on the concept of the "systems-of-systems" * It provides key answers as to what a system of systems is and how its complexity can be mastered.

This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics.

This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics.

This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics.

This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics.

Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure the main parameters that are indispensable to implement all these simulation tools.

This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics.

This series in three volumes considers maps as constructions resulting from a number of successive transformations and stages integrated in a logical reasoning and an order of choices. * Volume 1 introduces the basis of thematic cartography; the map is regarded as a construct due to transformation processes.

The governance of seas and oceans, defined as all forms of social participation in decision-making on the marine environment, is here mainly from a legal perspective view with the Law of the Sea as a determinant. The book presents the main aspects of maritime law and the history of its construction.

A pragmatic approach to Big Data by taking the reader on a journey between Big Data (what it is) and the Smart Data (what it is for). Today s decision making can be reached via information (related to the data), knowledge (related to people and processes), and timing (the capacity to decide, act and react at the right time).

The purpose of this book is to question the relationships involved in decision making and the systems designed to support it: decision support systems (DSS).

The purpose of this book is to question the relationships involved in decision making and the systems designed to support it: decision support systems (DSS).

* Presents the basic tools required to obtain the dynamicalmodels for aerial vehicles (in the Newtonian or Lagrangianapproach). * Several control laws are presented for mini-helicopters,quadrotors, mini-blimps, flapping-wing aerial vehicles, planes,etc.

This book presents all the theoretical and practical basements ofheterogeneous kinetics and reactivity of solids.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in innovative Beyond-CMOS nanodevices for developing novel functionalities, logic and memories dedicated to researchers, engineers and students.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in innovative Beyond-CMOS nanodevices for developing novel functionalities, logic and memories dedicated to researchers, engineers and students.

A presentation of the theory behind the Rayleigh-Ritz (R-R) method, as well as a discussion of the choice of admissible functions and the use of penalty methods, including recent developments such as using negative inertia and bi-penalty terms.

Texturing surfaces at micro- and/or nano-scales modifies the interactions of liquids and solids. This book is a summary of the state of the art concerning the development and use of micro/nano-technologies for the design of synthetic liquid repellent surfaces with a particular focus on super-omniphobic materials.

Filling a void in current literature, Mathematical Foundations of Image Processing and Analysis jointly addresses image processing and analysis, whereas most books on this topic solely focus on the processing aspects.